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Israel: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1972–2025 · 54 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
68.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom 67.7%
Average, 2016–2025
63.8%10 years
Record high and low
275.8% (1984)low 59.3% (2019)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203173.2Forecast
203072.4Forecast
202971.7Forecast
202871.0Forecast
202770.2Forecast
202669.8Forecast
202568.5
202467.7
202361.3
202260.3
202167.7
202071.1
201959.3
201860.1
201759.8
201661.7

Sources

  • Bordo1972–1996
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1972–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1972–2023
  • IMF Global Debt Database1983–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Israel 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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