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Kenya: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1961–2025 · 63 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
69.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.0 pointsfrom 67.3%
Average, 2016–2025
63.4%10 years
Record high and low
73.4% (2023)low 10.6% (1964)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203175.1Forecast
203074.2Forecast
202973.6Forecast
202873.3Forecast
202772.4Forecast
202671.6Forecast
202569.3
202467.3
202373.4
202267.8
202168.2
202068.0
201959.1
201856.4
201753.9
201650.4

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1961–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1982–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1998–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Kenya 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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