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Jamaica: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1963–2024 · 61 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2024
69.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−4.3 pointsfrom 74.2%
Average, 2015–2024
96.5%10 years
Record high and low
237.8% (1984)low 16.0% (1963)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202469.9
202374.2
202280.9
202199.0
2020108.7
201994.7
201895.6
2017103.0
2016115.4
2015124.0

Sources

  • IMF Global Debt Database1963–2024
  • WDI (archive)1980–1985
  • World Development Indicators1990–2020

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Jamaica 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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