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Lesotho: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1973–2025 · 53 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
49.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−3.7 pointsfrom 52.8%
Average, 2016–2025
52.9%10 years
Record high and low
108.7% (2001)low 2.09% (1974)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203150.0Forecast
203048.6Forecast
202947.9Forecast
202848.1Forecast
202748.6Forecast
202649.0Forecast
202549.1
202452.8
202361.1
202264.4
202158.0
202054.7
201958.2
201848.2
201741.0
201641.5

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1973–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1982–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1988–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Lesotho 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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