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Papua New Guinea: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1973–2025 · 53 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt

2025
72.8 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+9.9%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+15.0%a year

General government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203174,593Forecast
203075,000Forecast
202975,126Forecast
202875,212Forecast
202774,977Forecast
202676,152Forecast
202572,840
202466,294
202359,576
202253,680
202148,166
202040,168
201932,041
201829,123
201723,558
201621,944

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Papua New Guinea 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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