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Portugal: Government debt (% of GDP)

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

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

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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