List of countries by future gross government debt

This is a list of countries by estimated future gross central government debt based on data released in April 2015 by the International Monetary Fund, with figures in percentage of national GDP.

Projected debt estimates

Gross government debt (sortable; in percent of GDP)

Country	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Albania	72.564	73.562	69.754	64.752	60.062	55.260	50.040
Algeria	8.764	13.643	15.445	16.693	17.964	18.288	18.109
Angola	38.043	47.496	44.255	41.948	40.149	39.233	38.941
Antigua and Barbuda	98.692	106.907	102.435	97.169	91.698	86.319	81.133
Argentina	48.564	49.458	50.475	51.262	52.379	53.850	55.947
Armenia	44.222	53.054	56.098	57.790	60.730	60.956	61.981
Australia	34.258	38.081	40.152	41.384	41.579	41.213	40.678
Austria	86.824	88.785	87.387	86.247	85.417	84.457	83.547
Azerbaijan	16.353	21.622	23.052	23.976	25.195	26.132	27.290
The Bahamas	60.408	61.573	61.385	61.076	60.677	60.178	59.583
Bahrain	43.763	54.013	56.980	60.218	64.037	68.259	72.767
Bangladesh	33.860	33.011	32.017	30.886	29.419	28.108	26.754
Barbados	100.351	102.505	103.924	104.840	105.458	105.849	105.876
Belarus	37.887	39.560	45.515	46.758	47.137	48.554	49.811
Belgium	105.600	106.568	106.175	104.885	102.910	100.331	97.360
Belize	76.314	75.742	95.627	91.910	90.357	89.346	88.267
Benin	30.867	32.314	34.374	36.113	37.509	36.984	35.440
Bhutan	107.511	115.891	122.506	122.606	117.078	116.986	119.647
Bolivia	32.409	36.301	40.209	41.548	42.760	43.445	43.800
Bosnia and Herzegovina	44.906	46.618	46.491	45.578	43.621	40.394	37.082
Botswana	14.450	12.733	11.353	10.073	8.931	7.929	7.109
Brazil	65.218	66.194	66.178	65.279	65.148	65.099	64.194
Brunei Darussalam	2.615	3.282	2.953	2.723	2.513	2.191	2.044
Bulgaria	26.900	28.859	30.749	31.863	32.219	31.871	30.953
Burkina Faso	28.321	30.571	29.878	31.480	32.719	34.220	35.740
Burundi	30.541	26.730	24.449	22.331	20.353	18.696	17.530
Cambodia	29.543	29.788	29.524	29.060	28.641	28.324	28.072
Cameroon	23.932	30.065	33.615	36.580	38.814	39.949	40.747
Canada	86.515	86.993	84.971	83.066	81.477	80.051	78.664
Cape Verde	112.199	121.081	123.203	122.986	119.580	112.896	107.014
Central African Republic	41.830	42.238	42.252	44.228	46.700	49.503	52.237
Chad	24.983	23.677	21.635	18.991	18.368	17.538	15.728
Chile	13.891	16.253	17.910	19.048	19.559	19.970	20.316
China	41.061	43.464	46.184	48.117	49.236	49.760	49.794
Colombia	38.015	40.596	40.099	39.894	39.330	38.566	37.567
Comoros	19.953	19.757	19.205	18.577	18.009	15.888	14.380
Congo	42.295	51.564	44.335	37.150	35.799	35.418	34.966
Costa Rica	39.758	42.378	44.641	46.567	48.636	50.772	52.563
Croatia	80.926	85.072	87.196	87.736	87.312	86.695	86.018
Cyprus	107.106	105.670	111.049	105.141	100.316	95.768	91.362
Czech Republic	41.595	41.989	41.968	41.411	40.930	40.396	39.773
Cote d'Ivoire	36.414	34.747	33.386	32.009	30.797	29.847	27.716
Democratic Republic of Congo	19.691	20.492	20.968	22.623	24.135	24.952	25.152
Denmark	42.617	43.871	44.276	44.310	43.803	42.841	41.452
Djibouti	44.564	57.489	62.812	62.502	59.488	55.728	51.678
Dominica	76.562	78.492	80.097	82.012	83.908	85.882	87.958
Dominican Republic	35.142	30.704	36.158	36.344	36.606	37.311	37.990
Ecuador	29.789	34.307	36.617	37.737	37.637	36.300	34.988
Egypt	90.473	90.485	88.518	85.946	83.769	82.604	81.683
El Salvador	56.464	59.109	61.206	63.101	65.059	67.385	69.894
Equatorial Guinea	7.564	23.621	28.226	27.498	25.780	23.257	20.544
Eritrea	125.328	129.239	127.699	129.036	128.898	127.171	136.356
Estonia	9.666	10.127	10.010	9.777	9.542	9.307	9.032
Ethiopia	21.862	21.706	21.842	22.577	23.292	23.883	24.334
European Union	87.723	87.665	86.784	85.394	85.394	81.230	78.755
Fiji	49.525	49.141	48.468	47.857	47.220	46.557	45.939
Finland	59.627	61.719	62.820	63.225	63.160	62.651	61.904
France	95.140	97.010	98.065	97.934	96.944	94.910	92.106
Gabon	27.785	33.719	35.128	33.324	32.987	32.752	31.696
The Gambia	100.196	100.010	90.795	84.537	77.976	72.121	66.537
Georgia	35.088	42.434	42.733	41.625	40.144	38.573	35.807
Germany	73.112	69.496	66.626	64.114	61.638	59.200	56.854
Ghana	67.555	69.579	67.507	62.597	58.569	56.113	53.766
Greece	177.188	172.726	162.365	151.767	142.091	132.912	124.245
Grenada	107.203	107.111	102.711	98.474	93.944	89.565	85.178
Guatemala	23.740	24.561	25.250	25.705	26.067	26.381	26.640
Guinea	37.444	35.396	30.545	25.730	21.626	18.486	14.603
Guinea-Bissau	61.007	63.787	57.350	57.162	56.096	54.961	47.035
Guyana	65.806	70.645	71.075	72.137	72.476	71.829	70.432
Haiti	26.707	27.574	28.586	29.340	30.338	31.047	31.392
Honduras	46.145	48.314	49.693	50.127	49.596	48.908	47.848
Hong Kong	6.942	6.366	6.193	6.010	5.825	5.646	5.483
Hungary	76.892	75.476	74.684	73.878	73.182	72.431	71.806
Iceland	82.071	73.800	68.693	64.445	60.780	57.376	53.982
India	64.958	64.399	63.343	62.427	61.377	60.256	59.193
Indonesia	25.027	25.918	25.747	25.602	25.165	24.706	24.184
Iran	12.166	11.881	11.866	11.739	11.367	10.802	10.139
Iraq	37.022	55.553	56.155	48.604	42.071	36.644	30.392
Ireland	109.464	107.745	104.908	101.543	97.207	93.528	89.682
Israel	68.822	68.964	68.981	68.663	67.758	66.371	64.800
Italy	132.109	133.760	132.867	131.107	128.709	125.734	122.380
Jamaica	140.643	132.822	127.273	119.743	111.427	103.382	95.537
Japan	246.420	246.137	246.958	248.577	249.548	250.709	251.590
Jordan	89.331	90.683	88.363	85.237	81.062	77.307	74.116
Kazakhstan	15.122	17.230	19.122	21.292	24.575	27.309	29.897
Kenya	48.604	50.080	50.781	50.268	49.430	48.352	47.284
Kiribati	7.993	8.872	11.593	12.364	13.053	13.624	14.060
Kosovo	19.055	20.605	22.406	24.350	26.565	28.767	30.663
Kuwait	7.138	9.459	8.816	8.348	8.015	7.720	7.442
Kyrgyzstan	53.035	58.812	61.155	60.963	57.743	54.900	53.453
Lao People's Democratic Republic	62.508	63.038	65.367	67.019	67.395	69.324	70.828
Latvia	37.792	37.676	36.961	36.608	35.048	33.456	31.906
Lebanon	134.410	131.815	134.768	137.362	140.104	141.742	143.490
Lesotho	45.883	48.681	49.516	50.827	52.971	56.550	59.496
Liberia	33.242	40.199	42.588	43.753	43.292	41.830	39.416
Libya	39.303	43.867	64.095	62.530	71.009	71.606	79.609
Lithuania	37.705	38.126	38.145	37.809	37.206	36.567	35.728
Luxembourg	24.608	26.343	27.232	28.286	29.064	29.883	30.468
Republic of Macedonia	38.008	37.296	40.248	42.678	44.166	44.924	45.943
Madagascar	34.907	35.131	38.700	38.517	37.674	36.917	36.056
Malawi	62.018	54.458	47.620	42.628	38.013	34.109	29.197
Malaysia	56.950	56.659	54.849	53.821	52.068	50.348	48.406
Maldives	74.839	78.593	80.658	82.187	83.254	84.059	84.773
Mali	31.489	37.581	37.928	37.593	37.340	37.191	37.431
Malta	68.131	67.533	65.704	64.501	63.179	61.716	59.835
Marshall Islands	30.546	28.829	25.724	25.221	25.139	25.370	25.834
Mauritania	59.108	62.239	59.505	56.068	52.368	47.492	44.283
Mauritius	52.814	53.626	54.082	54.549	55.125	55.809	56.299
Mexico	50.084	51.400	51.666	51.643	50.919	50.164	49.449
Micronesia	26.539	25.436	24.155	22.437	20.871	19.134	17.467
Moldova	31.492	47.972	50.764	52.203	54.432	56.559	58.438
Montenegro	58.370	60.357	64.317	67.258	66.147	62.520	58.736
Morocco	63.889	65.535	64.853	63.535	62.065	60.425	58.735
Mozambique	55.404	61.332	61.913	61.217	59.360	57.756	51.143
Myanmar	39.722	41.271	42.387	44.130	45.811	47.660	49.551
Namibia	25.190	26.312	26.447	29.157	31.033	31.881	32.801
Nepal	26.257	23.648	22.278	21.587	21.325	21.470	21.945
Netherlands	68.305	67.517	65.564	64.006	62.402	60.795	59.212
New Zealand	33.984	33.072	33.655	32.641	29.490	26.802	24.362
Nicaragua	32.225	31.587	30.604	29.972	29.353	28.831	28.484
Niger	36.426	46.782	46.964	45.084	43.070	40.831	41.022
Nigeria	10.501	11.481	11.232	11.113	11.013	10.897	11.042
Norway	30.124	30.124	30.124	30.124	30.124	30.124	30.124
Oman	5.136	8.564	9.566	10.611	14.676	19.251	24.305
Pakistan	64.219	64.095	64.058	62.963	61.432	60.280	58.820
Panama	45.581	47.273	47.195	45.227	42.521	40.523	38.732
Papua New Guinea	35.599	32.173	33.360	33.702	34.183	35.142	33.739
Paraguay	21.422	22.767	23.326	23.938	24.508	24.929	25.279
Peru	20.708	21.480	22.305	22.194	21.728	21.396	22.086
Philippines	37.228	35.455	33.794	31.956	30.273	28.740	27.367
Poland	48.814	49.441	49.195	48.884	48.140	46.896	45.779
Portugal	130.183	126.347	124.321	122.695	122.166	121.660	120.893
Qatar	31.488	28.881	26.061	22.503	17.974	14.965	12.711
Romania	40.379	40.548	39.953	39.186	38.337	37.453	36.579
Russia	17.920	18.790	17.079	17.174	17.519	17.863	18.207
Rwanda	27.997	29.086	31.173	33.144	34.732	35.565	36.520
Saint Kitts and Nevis	80.953	74.498	68.267	62.985	60.423	56.314	54.390
Saint Lucia	83.875	87.994	92.501	96.845	100.999	104.957	108.980
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	75.069	77.147	78.802	79.055	78.059	76.451	74.983
Samoa	54.978	55.086	55.143	55.641	54.185	52.134	50.000
San Marino	22.890	23.683	24.426	25.232	25.988	26.745	27.418
Sao Tome and Principe	68.231	72.862	73.978	73.426	71.272	67.368	63.122
Saudi Arabia	1.570	1.820	1.674	1.554	1.456	1.380	9.246
Senegal	50.708	52.029	52.592	52.673	52.166	50.611	48.957
Serbia	72.414	76.389	78.372	78.010	76.229	74.644	72.158
Seychelles	64.569	63.719	58.910	54.232	49.106	44.237	40.083
Sierra Leone	38.838	46.293	43.047	40.325	39.566	39.440	39.848
Singapore	98.751	97.766	95.173	92.261	89.546	90.783	92.033
Slovak Republic	54.024	53.924	54.012	53.433	52.624	51.682	50.646
Slovenia	82.873	79.793	82.063	83.613	85.232	86.822	88.367
Solomon Islands	13.395	13.622	14.226	15.517	16.748	18.041	19.299
South Africa	45.866	47.505	48.213	48.833	49.975	50.654	50.618
South Korea	35.716	36.898	38.101	38.657	38.782	38.453	37.800
South Sudan	23.732	17.976	23.255	21.265	23.583	26.211	26.707
Spain	97.675	99.438	100.056	100.150	99.416	98.034	96.367
Sri Lanka	75.876	76.970	78.058	78.218	78.003	77.865	77.727
Sudan	74.238	78.468	74.849	71.822	69.371	66.746	63.454
Suriname	34.099	38.251	41.815	43.335	44.230	45.535	46.252
Swaziland	16.235	18.087	20.855	25.039	27.864	30.762	33.732
Sweden	41.501	41.054	39.584	38.169	36.379	34.386	32.260
Switzerland	46.093	45.939	45.553	44.698	43.672	42.625	41.595
Syria	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Taiwan	37.642	37.052	35.847	34.211	32.327	30.269	28.104
Tajikistan	28.182	29.689	31.053	32.546	32.683	32.603	32.410
Tanzania	33.227	34.741	34.775	34.816	34.899	34.924	34.959
Thailand	47.168	47.533	47.163	46.957	46.965	47.337	47.630
Togo	54.653	54.690	54.054	54.000	53.522	52.467	51.290
Trinidad and Tobago	37.645	39.454	43.690	47.877	52.080	56.174	60.341
Tunisia	47.465	53.777	55.475	55.925	54.734	53.652	53.649
Turkey	33.489	33.428	32.510	32.619	31.942	31.917	32.765
Turkmenistan	16.786	18.596	16.383	15.758	11.497	9.283	7.408
Tuvalu	56.920	48.644	41.211	33.373	26.729	21.514	16.547
Uganda	30.381	35.304	40.048	43.279	45.640	49.040	51.113
Ukraine	71.213	94.142	92.603	88.890	83.298	77.306	71.009
United Arab Emirates	12.071	14.745	15.091	15.619	16.074	16.394	16.482
United Kingdom	89.540	91.147	91.655	90.749	88.947	86.059	83.247
United States	104.770	105.061	104.906	104.253	103.617	103.886	104.331
Uruguay	62.780	64.376	65.319	65.809	66.583	67.358	68.260
Uzbekistan	8.460	8.318	8.270	8.367	8.512	8.680	8.859
Vanuatu	18.478	24.509	28.980	32.348	34.985	36.635	37.436
Venezuela	45.624	39.644	30.573	26.321	24.007	22.547	21.824
Vietnam	58.734	62.214	64.390	65.001	64.780	64.055	63.157
Yemen	48.906	53.689	54.042	54.112	53.518	52.674	51.347
Zambia	31.058	32.422	33.754	34.522	34.636	34.614	34.292
Zimbabwe	54.021	55.243	54.657	56.570	57.877	58.179	53.832

See also

• List of countries by public debt

Sources

• International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database of April 2015, for countries: , for the European Union: