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Gabon: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2024 · 55 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
70.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+0.3 pointsfrom 70.6%
Average, 2015–2024
65.7%10 years
Record high and low
110.8% (1989)low 20.1% (2008)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031121.1Forecast
2030114.3Forecast
2029108.0Forecast
2028102.1Forecast
202794.3Forecast
202686.1Forecast
202578.9Forecast
202470.9
202370.6
202265.6
202172.9
202083.0
201959.8
201862.3
201762.9
201664.5
201544.7

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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