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Germany: Government debt

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

2025
2.83 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+5.4%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.6%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20313,974,593Forecast
20303,777,182Forecast
20293,576,087Forecast
20283,377,426Forecast
20273,179,259Forecast
20262,963,570Forecast
20252,834,845
20242,690,640
20232,610,481
20222,541,900
20212,491,479
20202,342,411
20192,077,971
20182,087,571
20172,134,167
20162,179,422

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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