List of countries by public debt

Table columns:
Country
Net public debt as % of GDP (CIA)[1]
Date
Total (gross) government debt as % of GDP (IMF)
Net government debt as % of GDP (IMF)[2]
Date.1
Region

Table rows:
cells: Albania
71.0
2016
72.564
72.564
2014
Europe
cells: Algeria
16.8
2016
8.764
-16.485
2014
Africa
cells: Andorra
41.1
2012
Europe
cells: Angola
57.4
2016
38.043
2014
Africa
cells: Antigua and Barbuda
89.0
2012
98.692
98.692
2014
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Argentina
41.6
2012
44.88
2012
South America
cells: Armenia
53.4
2016
44.222
2014
Europe
cells: Aruba
67.0
2013
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Australia
46.1
2016
34.258
16.967
2014
Oceania
cells: Austria
85.8
2016
86.824
51.114
2014
Europe
cells: Azerbaijan
31.4
2016
16.353
2014
Europe
cells: Bahamas
64.4
2016
60.408
60.408
2014
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Bahrain
72.0
2016
43.763
43.763
2014
Middle East
cells: Bangladesh
25.9
2016
33.860
Asia
cells: Barbados
108.9
2016
100.351
2014
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Belarus
60.7
2016
37.887
0
2012
Europe
cells: Belgium
106.7
2016
105.600
65.363
2014
Europe
cells: Belize
86.3
2016
76.314
76.314
2014
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Benin
40.2
2016
30.867
2014
Africa
cells: Bhutan
30.0
2016
107.511
2014
Asia
cells: Bolivia
47.0
2016
32.409
11.970
2014
South America
cells: Bosnia and Herzegovina
46.5
2016
44.906
38.169
2012
Europe
cells: Botswana
21.0
2016
14.450
2014
Africa
cells: Brazil
72.4
2016
71.218
60.107
2016
South America
cells: Brunei
2.615
2012
Southeast Asia
cells: Bulgaria
24.0
2016
26.900
-2.538
2014
Europe
cells: Burkina Faso
28.321
2014
Africa
cells: Burma
47.524
2012
Southeast Asia
cells: Burundi
43.4
2016
30.541
2014
Africa
cells: Cambodia
33.9
2014
29.543
2014
Southeast Asia
cells: Cameroon
31.1
2016
23.932
2014
Africa
cells: Canada
98.8
2016
86.515
37.338
2014
North America
cells: Cape Verde
116.8
2016
112.199
107.691
2014
Africa
cells: Central African Republic
41.830
2014
Africa
cells: Chad
35.4
2016
24.983
2014
Africa
cells: Chile
18.5
2016
13.891
-5.154
2014
South America
cells: People's Republic of China
20.1
2016
65.68
2016
Asia
cells: Colombia
50.5
2016
38.015
27.888
2014
South America
cells: Comoros
19.953
19.953
2014
Africa
cells: Congo, Democratic Republic of the
18.2
2016
19.691
2014
Africa
cells: Congo, Republic of the
49.3
2016
42.295
2014
Africa
cells: Costa Rica
62.3
2016
39.758
39.758
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Cote d'Ivoire
50.9
2016
36.414
2014
Africa
cells: Croatia
88.3
2016
80.926
2014
Europe
cells: Cuba
32.7
2016
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Cyprus
98.4
2017
107.106
2014
Europe
cells: Czech Republic
35.2
2016
41.595
2014
Europe
cells: Denmark
39.6
2016
50.102
7.626
2012
Europe
cells: Djibouti
38.6
2012
38.618
2012
Africa
cells: Dominica
70.0
2012
72.164
72.164
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Dominican Republic
44.0
2016
33.486
33.486
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Ecuador
33.0
2016
18.613
2012
South America
cells: Egypt
92.6
2016
80.155
68.807
2012
Africa
cells: El Salvador
64.9
2016
52.193
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Equatorial Guinea
24.3
2016
8.177
8.177
2012
Africa
cells: Eritrea
119.8
2016
125.785
2012
Africa
cells: Estonia
9.7
2016
8.498
2.511
2012
Europe
cells: Ethiopia
54.2
2016
21.551
18.172
2012
Africa
cells: Fiji
50.2
2016
51.642
46.906
2012
Oceania
cells: Finland
64.9
2016
53.335
-50.933
2012
Europe
cells: France
96.5
2016
90.291
84.065
2012
Europe
cells: Gabon
43.5
2016
21.999
2012
Africa
cells: Gambia, The
77.179
77.179
2012
Africa
cells: Georgia
42.4
2016
32.738
2012
Europe
cells: Germany
69.0
2016
81.964
57.224
2012
Europe
cells: Ghana
73.7
2016
56.526
53.125
2012
Africa
cells: Gibraltar
7.5
2008
Europe
cells: Greece
181.6
2016
158.546
155.378
2012
Europe
cells: Grenada
110.0
2012
112.567
112.567
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Guatemala
27.4
2013
25.112
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Guinea
42.993
42.993
2012
Africa
cells: Guinea-Bissau
59.751
2012
Africa
cells: Guyana
53.1
2016
60.333
57.689
2012
South America
cells: Haiti
26.5
2015
15.446
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Honduras
47.3
2016
34.676
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Hong Kong
38.4
2016
32.393
2012
East Asia
cells: Hungary
75.1
2016
79.003
72.772
2012
Europe
cells: Iceland
56.5
2016
99.083
68.23
2012
Europe
cells: India
52.3
2016
41.11
2016
Asia
cells: Indonesia
29.4
2016
24.004
2012
Southeast Asia
cells: Iran
11.9
2016
10.726
1.214
2012
Middle East
cells: Iraq
34.191
2012
Middle East
cells: Ireland
77.9
2016
117.122
102.324
2012
Europe
cells: Israel
62.2
2016
69.637
69.574
2016
Middle East
cells: Italy
132.5
2016
126.978
103.208
2012
Europe
cells: Jamaica
130.1
2016
146.591
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Japan
234.7
2016
237.918
134.325
2012
Asia
cells: Jordan
90.6
2016
79.586
74.936
2012
Middle East
cells: Kazakhstan
24.1
2016
12.318
-17.097
2012
Asia
cells: Kenya
50.4
2016
48.185
43.167
2012
Africa
cells: Kiribati
8.6
2013
cells: Korea, North
Asia
cells: Korea, South
46.1
2016
33.668
32.241
2012
Asia
cells: Kuwait
23.1
2016
7.290
2012
Middle East
cells: Kyrgyzstan
69.5
2016
48.935
2012
Asia
cells: Laos
61.6
2016
53.082
2012
Southeast Asia
cells: Latvia
38.4
2016
36.417
26.569
2012
Europe
cells: Lebanon
132.5
2016
139.527
134.18
2012
Middle East
cells: Lesotho
53.4
2015
41.903
-2.141
2012
Africa
cells: Liberia
11.8
2016
29.076
-8.254
2012
Africa
cells: Libya
10.0
2016
0
-95.035
2012
Africa
cells: Lithuania
41.8
2016
39.586
35.39
2012
Europe
cells: Luxembourg
21.4
2016
21.138
2012
Europe
cells: Macedonia
50.5
2016
33.271
29.006
2012
Europe
cells: Madagascar
38.309
2012
Africa
cells: Malawi
61.2
2016
54.903
51.15
2012
Africa
cells: Malaysia
55.1
2016
55.474
2012
Southeast Asia
cells: Maldives
72.8
2014
77.486
2012
Asia
cells: Mali
27.3
2016
32.003
26.881
2012
Africa
cells: Malta
62.6
2016
72.538
2012
Europe
cells: Marshall Islands
51.3
2013
60.043
2012
Oceania
cells: Mauritania
79.703
2012
Africa
cells: Mauritius
66.0
2016
50.29
50.29
2012
Africa
cells: Mexico
49.7
2016
43.519
37.998
2012
North America
cells: Moldova
44.8
2016
23.845
23.845
2012
Europe
cells: Mongolia
72.0
2015
cells: Montenegro
59.5
2014
51.068
48.778
2012
Europe
cells: Morocco
77.0
2016
59.587
59.057
2012
Africa
cells: Mozambique
100.3
2016
46.628
2012
Africa
cells: Namibia
35.6
2016
26.642
24.411
2012
Africa
cells: Nepal
30.0
2012
33.129
33.129
2012
Asia
cells: Netherlands
57.0
2017
71.736
32.502
2012
Europe
cells: New Zealand
34.0
2016
38.154
26.416
2012
Oceania
cells: Nicaragua
46.2
2016
52.086
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Niger
31.051
4.25
2012
Africa
cells: Nigeria
13.2
2016
17.762
13.283
2012
Africa
cells: Norway
32.2
2016
34.118
-165.508
2012
Europe
cells: Oman
18.5
2016
6.122
2012
Middle East
cells: Pakistan
58.5
2016
62.079
58.771
2012
Asia
cells: Panama
39.3
2016
38.796
38.796
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Papua New Guinea
39.4
2016
Oceania
cells: Paraguay
22.4
2016
11.358
2012
South America
cells: Peru
26.3
2016
19.759
4.456
2012
South America
cells: Philippines
42.9
2016
41.919
2012
Southeast Asia
cells: Poland
44.7
2016
55.166
26.742
2012
Europe
cells: Portugal
126.2
2016
122.985
111.556
2012
Europe
cells: Qatar
55.6
2016
37.812
31.915
2012
Middle East
cells: Romania
39.3
2016
37.038
2012
Europe
cells: Russia
13.7
2016
10.877
2012
Europe
cells: Rwanda
36.6
2016
28.040
2012
Africa
cells: Saint Kitts and Nevis
83.0
2013
82.962
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Saint Lucia
77.0
2012
84.761
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
67.0
2013
67.084
2012
Central America/Caribbean
cells: San Marino
25.8
2013
Europe
cells: Sao Tome and Principe
89.5
2016
75.503
2012
Africa
cells: Saudi Arabia
31.0
2016
3.622
-52.725
2012
Middle East
cells: Senegal
55.6
2016
45.002
2012
Africa
cells: Serbia
65.7
2017
63.650
56.888
2012
Europe
cells: Seychelles
59.1
2016
82.528
69.482
2012
Africa
cells: Sierra Leone
43.3
2016
44.471
0
2012
Africa
cells: Singapore
110.5
2016
111.017
2012
Southeast Asia
cells: Slovakia
52.4
2016
52.333
2012
Europe
cells: Slovenia
78.5
2017
52.610
2012
Europe
cells: Solomon Islands
18.228
6.737
2012
Oceania
cells: South Africa
43.3
2016
42.282
35.561
2012
Africa
cells: Spain
99.6
2015
97.2
71.931
2015
Europe
cells: Sri Lanka
77.1
2016
Asia
cells: Sudan
68.8
2016
97.642
2012
Africa
cells: Suriname
20.464
2012
South America
cells: Swaziland
19.041
7.607
2012
Africa
cells: Sweden
41.4
2016
38.020
-17.632
2012
Europe
cells: Switzerland
34.1
2016
15.70
28.265
2016
Europe
cells: Syria
57.5
2016
Middle East
cells: Taiwan
32.7
2016
40.938
2012
East Asia
cells: Tajikistan
6.5
2013
32.466
2012
Asia
cells: Tanzania
36.6
2016
41.391
2012
Africa
cells: Thailand
50.4
2016
36.54
2016
Southeast Asia
cells: Togo
63.3
2016
46.706
2012
Africa
cells: Tonga
45.1
2013
cells: Trinidad and Tobago
61
2016
39.723
29.141
2012
Central America/Caribbean[3]
cells: Tunisia
57.3
2016
44.466
2012
Africa
cells: Turkey
32.7
2016
35.01
27.801
2016
Europe
cells: Turkmenistan
15.821
2012
Asia
cells: Tuvalu
41.1
2013
43.727
2012
Oceania
cells: Uganda
35.4
2016
34.532
2012
Africa
cells: Ukraine
72
2017
37.422
35.22
2012
Europe
cells: United Arab Emirates
60.3
2016
17.617
-93.486
2012
Middle East
cells: United Kingdom
92.2
2016
84.86
82.785
2016
Europe
cells: United States
73.8
2016
106.71
87.859
2016
North America
cells: Uruguay
62.8
2016
53.686
36.335
2012
South America
cells: Uzbekistan
8.3
2015
8.636
2012
Asia
cells: Vanuatu
20.011
2012
Oceania
cells: Venezuela
36.7
2016
57.287
2012
South America
cells: Vietnam
54.9
2016
52.099
49.058
2012
Southeast Asia
cells: Wallis and Futuna
5.6
2004
Oceania
cells: Yemen
92.2
2016
46.743
44.781
2012
Middle East
cells: Zambia
57.2
2016
26.875
23.517
2012
Africa
cells: Zimbabwe
45.4
2016
60.451
2012
Africa
cells: World
64
2012
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Questions about this table:
originalText: sweden national debt as a percentage of gdp
answer: answerTexts: 41.4