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Sweden: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
35.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.9 pointsfrom 34.2%
Average, 2016–2025
37.5%10 years
Record high and low
69.3% (1996)low 2.38% (1857)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203134.9Forecast
203035.5Forecast
202936.0Forecast
202836.4Forecast
202736.2Forecast
202635.0Forecast
202535.1
202434.2
202332.2
202234.4
202137.2
202040.5
201936.0
201840.2
201741.9
201643.2

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1800–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1800–2023
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • IMF Global Debt Database1970–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1970–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1993–2024
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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Sweden 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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