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Ethiopia: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
43.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+9.7 pointsfrom 33.4%
Average, 2016–2025
48.9%10 years
Record high and low
155.2% (1994)low 7.31% (1970)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203127.0Forecast
203029.1Forecast
202931.1Forecast
202833.6Forecast
202736.1Forecast
202640.4Forecast
202543.1
202433.4
202338.7
202246.9
202153.8
202053.2
201954.7
201858.4
201755.3
201651.8

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF Global Debt Database1970–2024
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1980–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1992–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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