Norway Government Debt (% of GDP)
Everything national and local government owes combined, compared with the size of the economy.
60.8%
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Q1 2000 to Q2 2026
Source: Eurostat gov_10q_ggdebt · general government, % of GDP, quarterly. A quarterly debt stock, which is not seasonally adjusted.
Norway Government Debt (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Norway, the government debt rose by 19.0pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 41.8% in Q2 2025.
That is the highest reading in a record that starts in Q1 2000.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 30.9% in Q2 2023 to 60.8% in Q2 2026.
Its average since Q1 2000 is 37.4%, and the latest reading is above that.
Norway is 31st 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
- Eurostat
- Series
- gov_10q_ggdebt
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Norway is an EEA/EFTA member rather than part of the EU, so this uses Eurostat's separate quarterly general-government datasets (which explicitly include Norway) rather than the EU-only EDP notification table used for most other countries on this site.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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