Thailand Government Debt (% of GDP)
Central government debt only, not the broader general-government measure used on most other country pages here (no general-government series is currently available for Thailand).
62.2%
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1989 to 2024
Source: FRED series DEBTTLTHA188A · World Bank World Development Indicators, central government debt, % of GDP, annual.
Thailand Government Debt (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Thailand, the government debt rose by 1.1pp in 2024, from 61.1% in 2023.
That is the highest reading in a record that starts in 1989.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 38.6% in 2019 to 62.2% in 2024.
Its average since 1989 is 27.2%, and the latest reading is above that.
Thailand is 28th 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
- World Bank via FRED
- Series
- DEBTTLTHA188A
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2024
- 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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