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Tanzania: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2024 · 55 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
48.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+0.9 pointsfrom 47.8%
Average, 2015–2024
42.8%10 years
Record high and low
129.2% (1993)low 9.28% (1970)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203141.8Forecast
203043.1Forecast
202944.1Forecast
202845.2Forecast
202746.4Forecast
202647.6Forecast
202548.5Forecast
202448.7
202347.8
202244.9
202143.4
202041.3
201940.4
201842.0
201740.1
201639.8
201539.5

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF Global Debt Database1970–2024
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1991–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2001–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2023–2031

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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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