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Spain: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1850–2025 · 172 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
100.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.0 pointsfrom 101.6%
Average, 2016–2025
105.2%10 years
Record high and low
165.0% (1876)low 11.5% (1974)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203192.8Forecast
203094.1Forecast
202995.5Forecast
202896.9Forecast
202799.1Forecast
202699.8Forecast
2025100.7
2024101.6
2023105.2
2022109.3
2021115.7
2020119.3
201997.7
201899.8
2017101.2
2016102.0

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1850–2023
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1880–2015
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1880–2020
  • AMECO (European Commission)1970–2025
  • IMF Global Debt Database1980–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • 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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