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Nigeria: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1968–2024 · 57 observations · cgovdebt

2024
185 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+32.4%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+32.3%a year

Central government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2024185,100,000
2023139,800,000
202295,778,052
202179,265,712
202066,284,350
201954,266,703
201843,696,123
201723,970,688
201618,263,682
201513,385,508

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Nigeria 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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