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France: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1880–2024 · 122 observations · cgovdebt

2024
2.77 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+6.8%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+5.2%a year

Central government debt

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Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20242,765,530
20232,589,590
20222,440,718
20212,308,090
20202,161,817
20191,987,077
20181,912,996
20171,839,634
20161,765,397
20151,719,703

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

France 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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