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United Kingdom: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1700–2025 · 326 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt

2025
3.03 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.1%a year

General government debt

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10M100M1B10B100B1T10T1700175018001850190019502000United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20313,718,640Forecast
20303,617,293Forecast
20293,518,708Forecast
20283,417,061Forecast
20273,301,447Forecast
20263,177,022Forecast
20253,034,298
20242,819,364
20232,689,271
20222,463,533
20212,364,174
20202,204,181
20191,897,419
20181,842,026
20171,793,370
20161,737,729

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

United Kingdom 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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