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Portugal: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1851–2025 · 175 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt

2025
275 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.6%a year

General government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031295,765Forecast
2030289,571Forecast
2029285,012Forecast
2028281,913Forecast
2027280,251Forecast
2026277,328Forecast
2025275,063
2024270,902
2023261,889
2022271,358
2021268,189
2020269,578
2019249,044
2018248,277
2017246,399
2016244,495

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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