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Nepal: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2024 · 55 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2024
47.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+0.7 pointsfrom 47.1%
Average, 2015–2024
36.5%10 years
Record high and low
55.8% (1999)low 0.559% (1970)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202447.9
202347.1
202242.7
202143.3
202043.3
201934.0
201831.1
201725.0
201625.0
201525.7

Sources

  • IMF Global Debt Database1970–2024
  • WDI (archive)1974–1996
  • World Development Indicators1990–2021

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Nepal 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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