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Singapore: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1963–2025 · 63 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
171.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+5.2 pointsfrom 166.0%
Average, 2016–2025
139.8%10 years
Record high and low
171.3% (2025)low 15.7% (1963)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031174.7Forecast
2030174.3Forecast
2029173.9Forecast
2028173.4Forecast
2027172.7Forecast
2026171.9Forecast
2025171.3
2024166.0
2023170.4
2022153.3
2021139.9
2020147.1
2019127.7
2018109.2
2017107.3
2016105.9

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1963–2015
  • Reinhart & Rogoff1969–2009
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Singapore 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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