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Pakistan: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1951–2025 · 75 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
72.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.6 pointsfrom 70.2%
Average, 2016–2025
72.4%10 years
Record high and low
88.7% (1972)low 12.4% (1951)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203158.2Forecast
203059.0Forecast
202960.8Forecast
202864.0Forecast
202767.1Forecast
202670.1Forecast
202572.8
202470.2
202378.5
202277.3
202174.7
202080.8
201978.7
201866.3
201762.1
201662.1

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1951–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1951–2023
  • Bordo1971–1993
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1994–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Pakistan 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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