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Venezuela: Government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1914–2024 · 111 observations · forecasts to 2025 · govdebt_GDP

2024
173.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+26.8 pointsfrom 146.3%
Average, 2015–2024
184.2%10 years
Record high and low
329.1% (2020)low 0.0365% (1941)

Government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025313.6Forecast
2024173.0
2023146.3
2022160.7
2021249.7
2020329.1
2019206.0
2018175.3
2017133.6
2016138.4
2015129.8

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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