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Malaysia: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1949–2025 · 75 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2025
1.43 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+6.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+7.9%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,953,986Forecast
20301,856,359Forecast
20291,764,228Forecast
20281,677,650Forecast
20271,596,239Forecast
20261,513,729Forecast
20251,429,425
20241,348,677
20231,270,790
20221,174,361
20211,071,114
2020960,220
2019863,509
2018805,620
2017746,475
2016697,175

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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