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Germany: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1871–2025 · 138 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt

2025
2.84 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+5.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.6%a year

General government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20314,078,191Forecast
20303,877,841Forecast
20293,673,583Forecast
20283,471,614Forecast
20273,269,561Forecast
20263,037,422Forecast
20252,843,058
20242,695,351
20232,631,464
20222,564,774
20212,495,480
20202,343,218
20192,079,431
20182,089,334
20172,135,446
20162,178,806

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Germany 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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