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Nepal: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
48.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.2 pointsfrom 48.3%
Average, 2016–2025
38.8%10 years
Record high and low
59.7% (1992)low 1.68% (1970)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203145.3Forecast
203046.1Forecast
202947.2Forecast
202848.3Forecast
202749.4Forecast
202649.6Forecast
202548.1
202448.3
202347.0
202242.7
202143.3
202043.3
201934.0
201831.1
201725.0
201625.0

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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