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Maldives: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1978–2025 · 48 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
125.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−7.9 pointsfrom 133.3%
Average, 2016–2025
104.5%10 years
Record high and low
155.7% (2020)low 34.7% (2004)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031131.9Forecast
2030133.2Forecast
2029132.5Forecast
2028131.4Forecast
2027130.3Forecast
2026129.4Forecast
2025125.4
2024133.3
2023122.4
2022111.6
2021123.4
2020155.7
201977.2
201870.7
201763.8
201661.9

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1978–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1997–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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