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Namibia: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1990–2024 · 35 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
69.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+2.0 pointsfrom 67.9%
Average, 2015–2024
58.0%10 years
Record high and low
70.1% (2022)low 11.8% (1991)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203175.7Forecast
203074.5Forecast
202973.3Forecast
202872.4Forecast
202771.2Forecast
202670.5Forecast
202570.2Forecast
202469.8
202367.9
202270.1
202169.6
202064.3
201957.6
201848.7
201743.8
201645.8
201542.1

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1993–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1993–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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