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France: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1880–2025 · 133 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2025
3.47 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.0%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20314,330,005Forecast
20304,226,924Forecast
20294,110,584Forecast
20283,982,270Forecast
20273,843,210Forecast
20263,661,997Forecast
20253,469,913
20243,319,197
20233,103,066
20222,955,651
20212,825,955
20202,662,518
20192,390,138
20182,322,310
20172,266,161
20162,189,033

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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