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Malawi: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2025
21.2 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+18.8%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+30.7%a year

Government debt

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100M1B10B100B1T10T100T1970198019902000201020202030MalawiMalawi
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203158,083,362Forecast
203048,790,218Forecast
202941,589,393Forecast
202835,345,645Forecast
202729,920,231Forecast
202624,954,530Forecast
202521,209,366
202417,855,245
202313,452,679
20228,929,108
20216,638,355
20204,751,026
20193,393,686
20182,952,401
20172,610,894
20161,896,634

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Malawi 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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