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Jamaica: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1963–2025 · 63 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
67.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+5.2 pointsfrom 62.5%
Average, 2016–2025
83.2%10 years
Record high and low
209.4% (1985)low 20.0% (1970)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203160.5Forecast
203061.6Forecast
202962.8Forecast
202863.8Forecast
202765.0Forecast
202665.8Forecast
202567.7
202462.5
202366.5
202270.2
202186.3
2020101.3
201987.7
201888.3
201795.1
2016106.9

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1963–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1999–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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