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Portugal: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1851–2025 · 175 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
89.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−3.8 pointsfrom 93.5%
Average, 2016–2025
114.4%10 years
Record high and low
134.1% (2020)low 14.2% (1974)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203176.9Forecast
203078.1Forecast
202979.8Forecast
202882.1Forecast
202785.3Forecast
202686.9Forecast
202589.7
202493.5
202396.9
2022111.2
2021123.9
2020134.1
2019116.1
2018121.1
2017126.0
2016131.2

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1851–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1851–2023
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • IMF Global Debt Database1970–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1973–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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