UK Government Debt (% of GDP)
Everything the government owes, excluding public sector banks, compared with the size of the economy.
94.0%
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Mar 1993 to Sep 2026
Source: ONS series HF6X (PUSF) · excluding public sector banks, not seasonally adjusted.
UK Government Debt (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the UK, the government debt fell by 0.7pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 94.7% in Sep 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 91.7% in Jan 2023 to 96.0% in Nov 2021.
Its average since Mar 1993 is 59.2%, and the latest reading is above that.
The UK is 11th 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
- ONS
- Series
- HF6X
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- 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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