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New Zealand: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · cgovdebt

2025
221 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+2.7%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+9.9%a year

Central government debt

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1B10B100B1T19501960197019801990200020102020New ZealandNew Zealand
Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025221,017
2024215,106
2023190,203
2022178,631
2021167,628
2020139,749
2019101,735
201884,934
201789,082
201688,931

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

New Zealand 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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