Denmark Government Debt (% of GDP)
Everything national and local government owes combined, compared with the size of the economy.
27.2%
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2000 to 2025
Source: Eurostat gov_10dd_edpt1 · general government, % of GDP, annual.
Denmark Government Debt (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Denmark, the government debt fell by 2.7pp in 2025, from 29.9% in 2024.
That is the lowest reading in a record that starts in 2000.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 27.2% in 2025 to 45.2% in 2020.
Its average since 2000 is 41.6%, and the latest reading is below that.
Denmark is 56th 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
- Eurostat
- Series
- gov_10dd_edpt1
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- 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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