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India: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1870–2024 · 154 observations · cgovdebt

2024
171 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+7.3%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+11.9%a year

Central government debt

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Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2024171,184,496
2023159,503,973
2022142,286,630
2021124,729,098
2020106,122,924
201991,194,165
201881,003,297
201773,487,592
201668,067,909
201561,227,380

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

India 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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