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Vanuatu: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1981–2024 · 44 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
39.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−0.2 pointsfrom 39.2%
Average, 2015–2024
39.9%10 years
Record high and low
46.4% (2017)low 3.28% (1981)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203152.9Forecast
203051.1Forecast
202949.3Forecast
202847.3Forecast
202745.3Forecast
202643.2Forecast
202540.9Forecast
202439.1
202339.2
202239.2
202142.2
202042.9
201939.8
201840.0
201746.4
201637.6
201532.2

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1981–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1991–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1991–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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