Iceland Government Debt (% of GDP)

Everything government owes, across all levels of government, compared with the size of the economy.

56.7%

−3.8pp vs 2024

2025 · Annual data

Not applicable, annual data

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Government Debt (% of GDP)

1982 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.

Iceland Government Debt (% of GDP) in context

Worked out from the published series shown above.

In Iceland, the government debt fell by 3.8pp in 2025, from 60.5% in 2024.

It is the lowest reading since 1998.

Over the past five years it has ranged from 56.7% in 2025 to 76.1% in 2020.

Its average since 1982 is 68.0%, and the latest reading is below that.

Iceland is 35th of 62 countries in our Government Debt to GDP by Country ranking.

How this series is defined

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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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