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Lebanon: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 52 observations · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
139.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−18.5 pointsfrom 157.9%
Average, 2016–2025
184.6%10 years
Record high and low
345.5% (2021)low 3.99% (1972)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025139.4
2024157.9
2023185.8
2022235.9
2021345.5
2020157.2
2019171.9
2018154.0
2017150.4
2016147.9

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025

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Lebanon 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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