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Papua New Guinea: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1973–2025 · 53 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
52.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.2 pointsfrom 53.3%
Average, 2016–2025
45.0%10 years
Record high and low
53.9% (2023)low 14.3% (1975)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203134.4Forecast
203037.2Forecast
202940.1Forecast
202843.2Forecast
202746.4Forecast
202649.2Forecast
202552.1
202453.3
202353.9
202248.2
202152.6
202048.7
201938.2
201836.7
201732.5
201633.7

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1973–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1992–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1994–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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