Hong Kong Government Debt (% of GDP)
Everything government owes, across all levels of government, compared with the size of the economy.
12.1%
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2004 to 2025
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook (GGXWDG_NGDP) · general government gross debt, % of GDP, annual · actual years only. The IMF's figures for the years after the one shown are projections, which this site does not publish.
Hong Kong Government Debt (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Hong Kong, the government debt rose by 2.9pp in 2025, from 9.2% in 2024.
That is the highest reading in a record that starts in 2004.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.0% in 2020 to 12.1% in 2025.
Its average since 2004 is 2.1%, and the latest reading is above that.
Hong Kong is 62nd 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
- Series
- World
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-16. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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