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United Kingdom: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1700–2025 · 326 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
102.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.4 pointsfrom 99.9%
Average, 2016–2025
95.1%10 years
Record high and low
268.1% (1946)low 25.0% (1703)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031102.7Forecast
2030103.0Forecast
2029103.6Forecast
2028104.0Forecast
2027104.2Forecast
2026103.7Forecast
2025102.3
202499.9
202398.9
202297.5
2021103.4
2020104.8
201984.9
201885.6
201786.1
201687.3

Sources

  • HM Treasury1700–2022
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1800–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1800–2023
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • IMF Global Debt Database1950–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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