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New Zealand: Government debt

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

2025
246 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+10.8%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+10.9%a year

Government debt

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ForecastLocal currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031321,799Forecast
2030312,811Forecast
2029308,780Forecast
2028299,170Forecast
2027286,243Forecast
2026267,530Forecast
2025246,154
2024222,195
2023197,449
2022184,682
2021170,516
2020142,040
2019102,917
201886,032
201790,477
201690,563

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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