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New Zealand: Central government debt

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

2025
226 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+2.4%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+10.0%a year

Central government debt

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1B10B100B1T19501960197019801990200020102020New ZealandNew Zealand
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025226,223
2024221,023
2023196,147
2022184,667
2021170,479
2020142,242
2019102,901
201885,926
201790,407
201690,513

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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