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United Arab Emirates: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1973–2024 · 52 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2024
709 billionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+15.7%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+12.9%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031778,463Forecast
2030755,227Forecast
2029727,927Forecast
2028725,132Forecast
2027717,570Forecast
2026715,842Forecast
2025720,645Forecast
2024708,817
2023612,438
2022591,859
2021553,349
2020395,050
2019411,414
2018334,514
2017313,561
2016261,279
2015218,994

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

United Arab Emirates 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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