Portugal Government Debt (% of GDP)
Everything Portugal's central government, the autonomous regions of the Azores and Madeira, local authorities and social security funds owe combined, compared with the size of the economy.
89.7%
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2000 to 2025
Source: Eurostat gov_10dd_edpt1 · EDP notification table, general government, % of GDP, annual.
Portugal Government Debt (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Portugal, the government debt fell by 3.8pp in 2025, from 93.5% in 2024.
It is the lowest reading since 2009.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 89.7% in 2025 to 134.1% in 2020.
Its average since 2000 is 98.6%, and the latest reading is below that.
Portugal is 11th of 37 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_10dd_edpt1
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-07. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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