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Sao Tome and Principe: Government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1977–2025 · 49 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt_GDP

2025
55.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−9.5 pointsfrom 65.2%
Average, 2016–2025
84.8%10 years
Record high and low
418.4% (2001)low 4.40% (1977)

Government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203138.3Forecast
203040.3Forecast
202943.2Forecast
202845.3Forecast
202747.4Forecast
202650.4Forecast
202555.7
202465.2
202373.2
202286.8
202185.1
202091.0
201998.6
201895.9
201792.3
2016104.6

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Sao Tome and Principe 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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