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Hungary: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1927–2025 · 61 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
74.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.1 pointsfrom 73.5%
Average, 2016–2025
73.1%10 years
Record high and low
87.0% (1993)low 22.5% (1929)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203185.9Forecast
203084.1Forecast
202982.0Forecast
202879.8Forecast
202777.2Forecast
202675.4Forecast
202574.6
202473.5
202373.3
202274.1
202176.2
202078.7
201965.0
201868.8
201772.0
201674.6

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1927–2023
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1928–2015
  • IMF Global Debt Database1989–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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