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Hong Kong: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2001–2025 · 25 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
11.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.6 pointsfrom 9.21%
Average, 2016–2025
3.50%10 years
Record high and low
11.9% (2025)low 0.0519% (2018)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203119.8Forecast
203019.2Forecast
202918.4Forecast
202817.5Forecast
202715.6Forecast
202614.1Forecast
202511.9
20249.21
20236.33
20224.28
20211.94
20200.997
20190.267
20180.0519
20170.0553
20160.0593

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database2001–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel2001–2022
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2004–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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