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Puerto Rico: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2006–2024 · 19 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
16.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+0.3 pointsfrom 16.6%
Average, 2015–2024
40.4%10 years
Record high and low
54.5% (2014)low 16.6% (2023)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203118.6Forecast
203018.9Forecast
202919.2Forecast
202819.5Forecast
202719.3Forecast
202618.8Forecast
202518.0Forecast
202416.9
202316.6
202216.7
202148.9
202050.2
201948.8
201852.4
201751.2
201649.9
201552.7

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database2006–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2006–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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