Nigeria Government Debt (% of GDP)
Everything government owes, across all levels of government, compared with the size of the economy.
39.3%
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1990 to 2024
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.
Nigeria Government Debt (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Nigeria, the government debt rose by 3.0pp in 2024, from 36.3% in 2023.
It is the highest reading since 2000.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 21.4% in 2019 to 39.3% in 2024.
Its average since 1990 is 25.1%, and the latest reading is above that.
Nigeria is 47th of 58 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
- 2024
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-12. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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