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Rwanda: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
64.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.2 pointsfrom 63.4%
Average, 2016–2025
57.1%10 years
Record high and low
102.2% (1995)low 5.03% (1970)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203161.6Forecast
203065.2Forecast
202967.2Forecast
202867.4Forecast
202767.4Forecast
202666.8Forecast
202564.6
202463.4
202361.4
202259.0
202166.2
202066.7
201952.8
201849.2
201746.1
201641.5

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1995–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • 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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