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Papua New Guinea: Government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · 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 4.13% (1970)

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

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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