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Vanuatu: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1981–2024 · 44 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2024
44.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+4.0 pointsfrom 40.6%
Average, 2015–2024
44.7%10 years
Record high and low
52.6% (2017)low 3.77% (1981)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202444.6
202340.6
202243.1
202148.5
202048.0
201945.1
201845.3
201752.6
201642.5
201536.3

Sources

  • IMF Global Debt Database1981–2024
  • WDI (archive)1984–1990
  • World Development Indicators1990–2023

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Vanuatu 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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