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Ireland: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1922–2025 · 104 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2025
210 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−2.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+0.4%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031211,623Forecast
2030204,518Forecast
2029200,069Forecast
2028198,621Forecast
2027198,421Forecast
2026202,577Forecast
2025210,220
2024215,597
2023219,470
2022223,772
2021235,416
2020218,089
2019202,945
2018205,546
2017200,965
2016199,690

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Ireland 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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