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Yemen: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1990–2024 · 35 observations · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
74.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−7.2 pointsfrom 81.2%
Average, 2015–2024
78.0%10 years
Record high and low
114.9% (1996)low 36.4% (2008)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202474.0
202381.2
202265.8
202175.9
202087.0
201991.5
201886.9
201783.8
201676.5
201557.7

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF Global Debt Database1990–2024
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1992–2015

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Yemen 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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