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Philippines: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1948–2014 · 67 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2014
43.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2013
−3.7 pointsfrom 47.1%
Average, 2005–2014
51.7%10 years
Record high and low
75.4% (1993)low 8.15% (1948)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
201443.4
201347.1
201249.2
201148.8
201050.2
200952.5
200851.5
200750.7
200658.3
200565.6

Sources

  • Reinhart & Rogoff1948–2009
  • WDI (archive)1972–1997
  • World Development Indicators1990–2014

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Philippines 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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