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Sri Lanka: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1950–2024 · 75 observations · cgovdebt

2024
29.7 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
−1.8%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+14.8%a year

Central government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
202429,729,477
202330,264,751
202227,899,424
202118,082,378
202015,182,750
201913,141,515
201812,831,905
201710,396,317
20169,609,766
20158,829,520

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Sri Lanka 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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