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Qatar: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1990–2023 · 34 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2023
42.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2022
+0.2 pointsfrom 42.6%
Average, 2014–2023
48.9%10 years
Record high and low
81.8% (1999)low 9.37% (2007)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203135.5Forecast
203036.5Forecast
202937.7Forecast
202839.7Forecast
202740.9Forecast
202643.3Forecast
202541.4Forecast
202441.3Forecast
202342.8
202242.6
202158.4
202072.6
201962.1
201852.2
201751.6
201646.7
201535.5
201424.9

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1990–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2023
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1991–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2023–2031

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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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