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Samoa: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 55 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
21.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−4.0 pointsfrom 25.2%
Average, 2016–2025
39.7%10 years
Record high and low
104.7% (1994)low 7.14% (1971)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203119.2Forecast
203018.5Forecast
202917.7Forecast
202817.2Forecast
202716.6Forecast
202617.1Forecast
202521.2
202425.2
202331.8
202241.0
202145.4
202043.2
201944.3
201849.4
201746.7
201649.0

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1998–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Samoa 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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