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Hungary: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2024 · 77 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2024
74.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+1.1 pointsfrom 73.4%
Average, 2015–2024
74.0%10 years
Record high and low
87.8% (1892)low 8.05% (1985)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202474.5
202373.4
202274.5
202176.9
202079.8
201966.4
201870.7
201773.1
201675.2
201575.6

Sources

  • Reinhart & Rogoff1880–2010
  • WDI (archive)1981–1997
  • IMF Global Debt Database1989–2024
  • World Development Indicators1991–2024

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Hungary 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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