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United Kingdom: Government debt (% of GDP)

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

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

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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