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Switzerland: Government debt

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

2025
331 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−1.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.8%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031322,247Forecast
2030323,971Forecast
2029325,661Forecast
2028327,786Forecast
2027330,158Forecast
2026332,985Forecast
2025331,367
2024335,076
2023299,649
2022283,972
2021295,880
2020295,012
2019278,557
2018276,570
2017281,344
2016273,116

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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