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New Zealand: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1860–2025 · 166 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2025
240 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+11.2%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+10.8%a year

Government debt

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ForecastLocal currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031311,091Forecast
2030302,402Forecast
2029298,506Forecast
2028289,215Forecast
2027276,719Forecast
2026259,424Forecast
2025240,490
2024216,247
2023191,466
2022178,645
2021167,664
2020139,551
2019101,751
201885,039
201789,150
201688,980

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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