India Government Debt (% of GDP)
Everything central and state governments owe combined, compared with the size of the economy.
84.3%
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1991 to 2025
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook (GGXWDG_NGDP) · general government, % 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, so the year under the figure is the most recent actual available, not a sign the feed has broken.
India Government Debt (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In India, the government debt fell by 0.5pp in 2025, from 84.8% in 2024.
It is the lowest reading since 2019.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 84.3% in 2025 to 90.4% in 2020.
Its average since 1991 is 76.0%, and the latest reading is above that.
India is 17th 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 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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