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Venezuela: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1914–2019 · 106 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2019
68.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2018
+20.9 pointsfrom 47.6%
Average, 2010–2019
49.6%10 years
Record high and low
108.6% (2017)low 0.0357% (1941)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
201968.5
201847.6
2017108.6
201653.3
201553.2
201444.5
201345.1
201231.6
201125.2
201018.4

Sources

  • Reinhart & Rogoff1914–2009
  • IMF Global Debt Database1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1970–1986

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Venezuela 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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