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Portugal: Government debt

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

2025
269 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.4%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031292,749Forecast
2030286,777Forecast
2029282,416Forecast
2028279,489Forecast
2027278,261Forecast
2026271,382Forecast
2025268,972
2024264,917
2023259,014
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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