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Zambia: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · gen_govdebt

2025
624 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−24.7%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+18.6%a year

General government debt

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100k10M1B100B197019801990200020102020ZambiaZambia
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025624,083
2024828,963
2023719,376
2022491,378
2021491,200
2020465,812
2019310,462
2018223,345
2017164,019
2016132,154

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Zambia 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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