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Jamaica: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1963–2025 · 63 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2025
2.45 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+13.7%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.9%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20313,170,169Forecast
20303,034,920Forecast
20292,908,327Forecast
20282,777,875Forecast
20272,652,700Forecast
20262,484,465Forecast
20252,446,005
20242,151,236
20232,197,250
20222,025,368
20212,076,815
20202,163,221
20191,991,083
20181,917,080
20171,920,808
20161,992,512

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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