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Liberia: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1973–2025 · 36 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
54.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.5 pointsfrom 56.4%
Average, 2016–2025
47.9%10 years
Record high and low
600.1% (2003)low 20.5% (2012)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203143.1Forecast
203045.9Forecast
202948.7Forecast
202850.5Forecast
202753.3Forecast
202653.8Forecast
202554.9
202456.4
202357.2
202254.4
202153.5
202058.5
201948.1
201836.2
201731.8
201628.0

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1973–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Liberia 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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