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Russian Federation: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1885–2025 · 63 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
17.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.4 pointsfrom 14.8%
Average, 2016–2025
15.4%10 years
Record high and low
135.2% (1998)low 7.45% (2008)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203129.1Forecast
203027.2Forecast
202925.4Forecast
202823.6Forecast
202721.2Forecast
202619.1Forecast
202517.2
202414.8
202315.2
202215.1
202116.5
202019.2
201913.7
201813.6
201714.3
201614.8

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1885–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1885–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1997–2025
  • IMF Global Debt Database1998–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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