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Uganda: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2024 · 50 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
51.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+1.4 pointsfrom 50.4%
Average, 2015–2024
41.5%10 years
Record high and low
81.7% (1992)low 9.41% (1979)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203153.3Forecast
203053.4Forecast
202953.5Forecast
202853.9Forecast
202754.4Forecast
202655.0Forecast
202554.2Forecast
202451.8
202350.4
202249.9
202150.3
202046.8
201938.0
201835.0
201733.6
201631.3
201528.0

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1997–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1997–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Uganda 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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