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India: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1861–2025 · 144 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
84.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.7 pointsfrom 84.8%
Average, 2016–2025
80.4%10 years
Record high and low
90.6% (2020)low 11.3% (1867)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203177.7Forecast
203079.5Forecast
202980.6Forecast
202881.7Forecast
202782.5Forecast
202683.4Forecast
202584.1
202484.8
202385.0
202284.6
202185.7
202090.6
201976.7
201871.7
201770.8
201669.8

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1861–2023
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1948–2015
  • Bordo1974–1997
  • IMF Global Debt Database1991–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1991–2025
  • 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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