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Gambia: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1973–2023 · 51 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2023
77.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2022
−6.6 pointsfrom 83.9%
Average, 2014–2023
80.4%10 years
Record high and low
99.8% (1987)low 6.87% (1973)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203144.3Forecast
203048.1Forecast
202951.8Forecast
202856.4Forecast
202761.6Forecast
202668.3Forecast
202573.9Forecast
202478.5Forecast
202377.4
202283.9
202183.1
202085.9
201983.0
201883.6
201787.0
201679.5
201569.4
201471.1

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1973–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2023–2031

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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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