Economy
Public debt / GDP
GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS ยท %
Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.
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Latest known value: 77.29% for Italy in 1992, over a series running from 1991 to 1992 and 6 countries compared, from the highest (Sudan, 865.87%) to the lowest (Somalia, 12.66%).
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Year by year values
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| Italy | Spain | Netherlands | United States | Sudan | Somalia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 105.64% | 115.77% | 12.66% | |||
| 2023 | 107.39% | 114.73% | ||||
| 2022 | 109.02% | 112.72% | 43.38% | |||
| 2021 | 132.55% | 118.28% | 47.31% | |||
| 2020 | 138.96% | 124.51% | ||||
| 2019 | 111.29% | 100.23% | ||||
| 2018 | 107.2% | 98.63% | ||||
| 2017 | 106.58% | 97.21% | ||||
| 2016 | 105.97% | 98.12% | ||||
| 2015 | 104.51% | 96.14% | ||||
| 2014 | 104.93% | 95.64% | ||||
| 2013 | 91.87% | 95.51% | ||||
| 2012 | 77.45% | 93.83% | ||||
| 2011 | 57.79% | 89.73% | ||||
| 2010 | 49.96% | 85.15% | ||||
| 2009 | 48.2% | 76.03% | ||||
| 2008 | 35.7% | 63.97% | ||||
| 2007 | 31.73% | 55.81% | ||||
| 2006 | 35.75% | 55.62% | ||||
| 2005 | 40.23% | 56.69% | ||||
| 2004 | 43.44% | 56.83% | ||||
| 2003 | 45.48% | 56.43% | ||||
| 2002 | 50.15% | 54.05% | ||||
| 2001 | 52% | 52.63% | ||||
| 2000 | 56.46% | 33.27% | ||||
| 1999 | 59.21% | 37.73% | 865.87% | |||
| 1998 | 64.31% | 41.13% | 786.95% | |||
| 1997 | 64.05% | 44.12% | ||||
| 1996 | 64.25% | 46.74% | ||||
| 1995 | 57.92% | 47.21% | ||||
| 1994 | 48.14% | 54.21% | 47.35% | |||
| 1993 | 46.73% | 56.45% | 48.25% | |||
| 1992 | 77.29% | 37.01% | 56.01% | 46.05% | ||
| 1991 | 71.26% | 35.19% | 55.21% | 44.06% | ||
| 1990 | 35.16% | 54.72% | 40.93% | |||
| 1989 | 39.13% | |||||
| 1971 | 1,768.65% | |||||
| 1970 | 2,003.94% |
World Bank definition
Central government debt, total (% of GDP)
Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year. Central government is the part of general government that includes all administrative departments of the national executive, legislative, and judicial functions, other central agencies and those non-market producers controlled by the central government, whose competence extends normally over the whole economic territory. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
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