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Russian Federation: Government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1885–2025 · 65 observations · forecasts to 2031 · 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)

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

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Russian Federation 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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