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Ireland: Government debt

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

2025
182 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−8.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
−1.0%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031194,379Forecast
2030187,951Forecast
2029183,956Forecast
2028182,709Forecast
2027183,144Forecast
2026177,844Forecast
2025182,329
2024198,220
2023213,326
2022223,608
2021235,052
2020217,893
2019202,456
2018205,424
2017201,271
2016200,436

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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