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Panama: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1946–2025 · 80 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
56.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.2 pointsfrom 57.8%
Average, 2016–2025
49.2%10 years
Record high and low
124.5% (1990)low 10.1% (1946)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203153.9Forecast
203055.3Forecast
202956.3Forecast
202857.1Forecast
202757.5Forecast
202657.7Forecast
202556.6
202457.8
202354.4
202256.2
202158.0
202062.4
201942.5
201836.3
201734.3
201634.0

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1946–2023
  • IMF Global Debt Database1950–2024
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1953–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1994–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Panama 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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