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Peru: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1900–2025 · 122 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
30.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.8 pointsfrom 32.1%
Average, 2016–2025
29.9%10 years
Record high and low
60.6% (1985)low 4.24% (1921)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203132.2Forecast
203032.1Forecast
202932.1Forecast
202831.6Forecast
202730.9Forecast
202630.0Forecast
202530.2
202432.1
202332.4
202233.5
202135.5
202034.3
201926.5
201825.7
201724.8
201623.9

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1900–2023
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1918–2015
  • Kehoe & Nicolini1970–2017
  • IMF Global Debt Database1999–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Peru 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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