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United Kingdom: Government debt

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

2025
3.11 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.3%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20313,872,371Forecast
20303,767,926Forecast
20293,666,295Forecast
20283,561,406Forecast
20273,443,300Forecast
20263,286,398Forecast
20253,107,225
20242,887,854
20232,721,043
20222,516,697
20212,402,710
20202,226,431
20191,913,591
20181,858,505
20171,806,064
20161,749,168

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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