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Malaysia: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1953–2025 · 67 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
70.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom 69.8%
Average, 2016–2025
63.5%10 years
Record high and low
110.4% (1987)low 8.75% (1953)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203165.4Forecast
203066.1Forecast
202966.9Forecast
202867.8Forecast
202768.7Forecast
202669.5Forecast
202570.7
202469.8
202369.7
202265.5
202169.2
202067.7
201957.1
201855.6
201754.4
201655.8

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1953–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF Global Debt Database1990–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Malaysia 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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