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Iraq: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2004–2025 · 22 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
53.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+8.7 pointsfrom 45.2%
Average, 2016–2025
51.0%10 years
Record high and low
344.3% (2004)low 27.6% (2014)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203170.6Forecast
203066.9Forecast
202963.8Forecast
202860.9Forecast
202758.7Forecast
202661.7Forecast
202553.9
202445.2
202342.1
202239.0
202154.7
202072.5
201941.7
201844.4
201755.9
201660.3

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database2004–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2004–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Iraq 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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