Israel Government Debt (% of GDP)
Everything national and local government owes combined, compared with the size of the economy.
73.8%
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1999 to 2025
Source: BIS credit statistics QILGAM770A · total credit to general government, adjusted for breaks, % of GDP, annual. This is the BIS credit measure, not the general-government gross debt measure used on most other country pages here, so it is not strictly like-for-like with them.
Israel Government Debt (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Israel, the government debt rose by 4.6pp in 2025, from 69.2% in 2024.
It is the highest reading since 2021.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 61.1% in 2022 to 79.0% in 2020.
Its average since 1999 is 74.8%, and the latest reading is below that.
Israel is 22nd 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
- BIS credit statistics QILGAM770A
- Series
- See the citation below
- 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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