Colombia Government Debt (% of GDP)
Everything national and local government owes combined, compared with the size of the economy.
61.2%
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1996 to 2024
Source: FRED series COLGGXWDGGDP (IMF Western Hemisphere Regional Economic Outlook), annual.
Colombia Government Debt (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Colombia, the government debt rose by 5.8pp in 2024, from 55.5% in 2023.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 51.0% in 2019 to 65.3% in 2020.
Its average since 1996 is 42.9%, and the latest reading is above that.
Colombia is 30th of 62 countries in our Government Debt to GDP by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF via FRED
- Series
- COLGGXWDGGDP
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2024
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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