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Syria: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2010 · 41 observations · gen_govdebt_GDP

2010
30.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2009
−1.2 pointsfrom 31.2%
Average, 2001–2010
76.0%10 years
Record high and low
206.8% (1989)low 30.0% (2010)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
201030.0
200931.2
200837.3
200742.7
200645.0
200550.7
2004113.0
2003133.4
2002132.4
2001144.5

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2010
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2009
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2009–2010

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Syria 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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