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Zambia: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
86.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−39.2 pointsfrom 125.2%
Average, 2016–2025
100.3%10 years
Record high and low
280.1% (1998)low 18.9% (2010)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202586.0
2024125.2
2023129.1
202299.5
2021111.0
2020140.0
2019103.3
201881.2
201766.6
201661.2

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025

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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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