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Finland: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1914–2025 · 112 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
88.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+6.2 pointsfrom 82.4%
Average, 2016–2025
73.6%10 years
Record high and low
88.5% (2025)low 6.09% (1974)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031101.2Forecast
203099.7Forecast
202998.3Forecast
202896.6Forecast
202794.6Forecast
202692.7Forecast
202588.5
202482.4
202377.0
202274.0
202173.1
202075.3
201965.3
201865.4
201766.6
201668.6

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1914–2015
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1914–2020
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1914–2023
  • IMF Global Debt Database1960–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1970–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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