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Switzerland: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1880–2025 · 146 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2025
342 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−1.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.0%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031330,689Forecast
2030332,458Forecast
2029334,192Forecast
2028336,373Forecast
2027338,807Forecast
2026340,053Forecast
2025341,972
2024345,891
2023310,994
2022294,221
2021305,103
2020300,692
2019284,329
2018282,407
2017285,951
2016277,418

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Switzerland 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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