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Finland: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1914–2024 · 111 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2024
82.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+4.9 pointsfrom 77.2%
Average, 2015–2024
71.6%10 years
Record high and low
86.5% (1945)low 1.67% (1974)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202482.0
202377.2
202274.0
202173.2
202075.3
201965.3
201865.4
201766.6
201668.6
201568.8

Sources

  • Reinhart & Rogoff1914–2010
  • IMF Global Debt Database1950–2024
  • WDI (archive)1971–1996
  • World Development Indicators1990–1994

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Finland documentation (PDF)

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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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