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Libya: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1973–2015 · 43 observations · gen_govdebt_GDP

2015
73.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2014
+37.5 pointsfrom 36.4%
Average, 2006–2015
15.6%10 years
Record high and low
73.8% (2015)low 1.98% (2007)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
201573.8
201436.4
20133.71
20122.25
201126.6
20102.86
20092.76
20082.63
20071.98
20062.86

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1973–2015

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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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