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Turkey: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1936–2025 · 79 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
23.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.1 pointsfrom 23.6%
Average, 2016–2025
29.6%10 years
Record high and low
75.6% (2001)low 15.1% (1957)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203127.5Forecast
203028.0Forecast
202927.4Forecast
202827.3Forecast
202726.9Forecast
202625.5Forecast
202523.5
202423.6
202328.2
202229.4
202138.9
202038.3
201931.2
201828.8
201726.9
201627.0

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1936–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1936–2023
  • Bordo1988–1997
  • IMF Global Debt Database2000–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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