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Italy: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1861–2025 · 165 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
137.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.4 pointsfrom 134.7%
Average, 2016–2025
138.0%10 years
Record high and low
160.4% (1920)low 24.4% (1947)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031134.2Forecast
2030134.5Forecast
2029135.1Forecast
2028135.5Forecast
2027136.7Forecast
2026135.9Forecast
2025137.1
2024134.7
2023133.9
2022138.4
2021145.8
2020154.4
2019133.9
2018134.2
2017133.7
2016134.2

Sources

  • Banca d'Italia1861–2010
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1861–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1861–2023
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • IMF Global Debt Database1950–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1960–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1988–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • 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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