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Portugal: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1851–2024 · 174 observations · cgovdebt

2024
288 billionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+3.8%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+2.2%a year

Central government debt

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Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2024287,742
2023277,280
2022283,178
2021277,680
2020277,296
2019255,256
2018254,746
2017251,527
2016247,170
2015236,582

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Portugal 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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