List of countries by future gross government debt

This is a list of countries by estimated future gross government debt

Government debt

Government debt is money owed by a central government. In the US, "government debt" may also refer to the debt of a municipal or local government...

based on data released in September 2011 by the International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

, with figures in percentage of national GDP.

**Gross government debt (sortable; in percent of GDP)**
Country	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Albania	59.363	59.242	59.558	60.579	62.014	63.627
Algeria	10.655	10.709	10.682	10.683	10.568	10.370
Angola	29.909	24.715	19.887	16.323	13.735	12.241
Antigua and Barbuda	68.629	66.578	63.902	58.537	54.804	49.357
Argentina	43.346	41.469	40.380	39.493	38.022	37.313
Armenia	41.475	41.390	39.285	37.418	37.025	36.510
Australia	22.816	23.823	22.964	21.602	20.024	18.164
Austria	72.331	73.875	74.135	73.792	73.350	72.904
Azerbaijan	10.676	9.971	9.980	10.310	11.492	12.959
Baha The Bahamas	48.614	49.931	51.775	53.379	54.812	55.897
Bahrain	34.153	39.096	43.746	50.310	58.535	67.161
Barbados	116.904	115.605	114.556	113.004	110.297	107.546
Belarus	46.298	45.593	50.313	52.285	57.095	55.857
Belgium	94.561	94.276	93.922	93.633	93.240	92.955
Belize	79.340	77.694	76.645	75.801	75.057	74.590
Benin	30.832	30.528	30.111	28.989	27.973	26.691
Bhutan	81.253	95.326	103.544	107.407	110.672	107.367
Bolivia	32.366	31.420	30.617	29.849	26.680	24.421
Bosnia and Herzegovina	39.594	38.370	35.725	32.342	29.777	27.903
Botswana	15.680	14.080	12.505	10.888	9.425	8.117
Brazil	64.981	63.999	62.524	60.899	58.974	57.218
Brunei	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Kingdom of Bulgaria	17.775	20.464	20.724	20.352	20.501	19.343
Burkina Faso	29.147	29.871	30.507	30.999	31.494	32.127
Burundi	49.000	44.156	39.774	36.298	33.507	31.976
Cambodia	29.195	28.756	27.627	27.089	26.099	25.036
Cameroon	14.547	14.682	14.973	14.988	14.993	15.489
Canada	84.117	84.163	82.287	79.694	76.444	72.952
Cape Verde	73.948	78.322	80.170	77.535	73.717	71.659
Central African Republic	36.959	32.779	28.398	24.857	21.300	18.214
Chad	29.787	29.699	27.827	26.001	24.701	24.856
Chile	10.490	10.616	10.625	10.690	10.704	10.928
Mainland China	26.881	22.198	18.447	15.476	12.996	10.932
Colombia	35.918	34.686	33.654	32.840	32.053	31.192
Comoros	47.101	42.940	39.195	35.283	31.539	28.299
Republic of the Congo	22.049	22.192	20.558	19.352	18.113	18.173
Costa Rica	32.650	33.331	33.997	34.965	35.948	37.027
Independent State of Croatia	47.532	50.048	51.932	53.404	54.487	55.117
Cyprus	63.960	66.416	67.832	67.933	67.961	68.044
Czech Republic	41.127	43.248	44.563	45.680	46.666	47.628
Côte d'Ivoire	93.346	54.833	52.374	50.138	48.592	47.496
align="left"	\|46.586	50.482	44.285	43.875	36.288	35.966
Denmark	44.327	45.829	47.004	48.087	48.813	49.185
Djibouti	53.679	53.627	52.819	51.845	50.974	50.240
Dominica	54.889	54.804	54.114	53.444	52.863	52.447
Dominican Republic	28.462	26.655	24.876	23.016	21.222	19.722
Ecuador	20.868	20.818	20.916	21.988	23.463	25.106
Egypt	76.239	76.644	75.541	71.637	67.455	62.986
El Salvador	49.907	49.310	48.699	47.510	46.398	45.344
Equatorial Guinea	8.520	10.554	8.984	7.109	4.739	2.496
Eritrea	134.417	127.619	125.063	121.276	124.636	124.599
Estonia	5.962	5.618	5.327	5.070	4.823	4.579
Ethiopia	39.442	34.071	33.329	32.485	31.461	30.091
European Union	82.316	83.682	83.744	82.778	81.221	79.525
Fiji	56.801	56.889	56.463	56.057	56.166	56.215
Finland	50.224	50.311	50.952	51.609	52.025	52.321
Early Modern France	86.811	89.371	90.706	90.750	89.681	87.683
Gabon	21.786	20.110	19.491	19.142	18.605	18.003
Ga The Gambia	57.664	56.926	54.182	51.076	48.064	45.149
Georgia (country)	36.783	38.022	38.177	36.498	35.506	34.473
Germany	82.643	81.896	80.957	79.058	77.123	75.036
Ghana	38.130	37.466	37.575	36.715	36.506	37.231
Greece	165.559	189.149	187.944	178.530	165.057	162.839
Grenada	101.920	104.312	105.436	106.202	102.342	98.693
Guatemala	24.220	25.047	25.669	26.078	26.532	27.021
Guinea	85.475	82.195	85.251	90.527	64.529	52.145
Guinea-Bissau	45.077	43.505	41.403	38.481	36.247	34.159
Guyana	60.433	59.287	59.717	60.269	59.631	58.827
Haiti	12.603	18.969	24.188	29.404	34.240	39.825
Honduras	27.561	27.795	27.918	28.128	28.441	28.915
Hong Kong	33.812	32.085	29.161	28.604	28.104	27.548
Hungary	76.124	75.527	75.647	74.415	73.116	71.539
Iceland	101.196	96.772	95.034	91.721	88.209	82.549
India	62.432	61.988	60.935	60.514	60.134	59.702
Indonesia	25.244	23.972	22.685	21.382	20.181	18.968
Iraq	42.332	42.785	31.754	24.485	24.163	19.532
Republic of Ireland	109.273	115.433	118.303	117.662	116.132	114.305
Iran	9.229	8.021	7.128	6.386	5.760	5.192
Israel	71.146	68.912	66.848	64.357	61.960	59.687
Italy	121.065	121.385	120.105	118.403	116.319	114.089
Jamaica	143.308	138.000	129.818	118.740	97.298	90.155
Japan	233.100	238.441	242.927	245.854	249.916	253.388
Jordan	68.479	67.781	66.877	66.280	64.373	63.632
Kazakhstan	12.901	12.996	13.839	14.184	14.378	14.062
Kenya	55.176	53.420	51.976	51.612	51.146	50.122
Korea	32.020	30.001	27.960	25.954	23.976	22.166
Kuwait	8.057	7.691	7.124	6.664	6.199	5.762
Kyrgyzstan	55.202	54.615	56.832	56.408	56.407	54.523
align="left"	\|57.355	54.017	52.163	50.767	49.371	47.967
Latvia	39.566	40.529	43.436	46.570	41.973	39.643
Lebanon	126.361	125.010	124.166	124.768	126.352	128.167
Lesotho	38.235	41.867	41.237	42.713	42.864	42.328
Liberia	13.279	14.520	16.814	20.550	22.413	25.258
Lithuania	42.824	44.626	45.859	46.360	46.477	46.374
Luxembourg	19.656	21.506	23.758	25.798	28.166	30.656
Mac Republic of Macedonia	26.298	28.187	27.423	27.256	26.931	26.401
Madagascar	36.393	35.973	36.216	36.539	37.178	37.514
Malawi	40.477	43.832	44.011	41.447	40.455	39.560
Malaysia	55.120	55.923	56.554	56.961	57.226	57.360
Maldives	62.884	70.541	75.626	81.592	86.797	91.990
Mali	30.025	27.176	24.525	24.999	25.668	26.386
Malta	66.264	66.073	65.891	64.755	63.653	62.771
Mauritania	61.964	64.151	65.416	68.245	65.410	62.836
Mauritius	51.889	53.090	51.639	50.377	48.902	47.137
Mexico	42.897	43.637	43.518	43.430	43.269	43.182
Moldova	23.569	21.650	20.688	20.252	19.050	17.558
Kingdom of Montenegro	43.073	42.203	41.094	39.931	38.562	37.708
Morocco	54.152	55.477	56.048	55.787	54.939	53.452
Mozambique	39.030	42.719	46.318	49.643	52.095	52.520
Myanmar	45.165	47.703	49.097	50.242	46.459	47.102
Namibia	25.486	29.010	34.676	38.533	41.530	44.450
Nepal	33.922	33.468	32.930	32.457	32.191	32.216
Netherlands	65.521	66.516	66.908	66.732	65.842	64.391
New Zealand	35.313	34.572	34.108	33.294	31.103	29.748
Nicaragua	77.415	76.037	73.874	71.975	70.062	68.129
Niger	17.690	17.821	18.923	19.778	20.721	21.550
Nigeria	15.715	16.311	17.072	15.701	15.042	13.410
Norway	55.420	55.420	55.420	55.420	55.420	55.420
Oman	4.018	3.246	2.483	1.817	1.173	5.234
Pakistan	57.645	57.279	56.499	55.094	52.836	51.142
Panama	36.152	34.773	33.431	31.217	28.916	26.592
Paraguay	12.751	11.221	10.743	10.348	9.772	9.242
Peru	21.518	19.191	16.363	13.441	10.787	8.136
Philippines	44.430	43.595	42.158	40.875	39.671	38.517
Poland	55.952	56.369	56.460	56.241	55.561	54.688
Portugal	106.030	111.793	114.928	114.599	112.540	110.493
Qatar	27.859	27.703	27.397	27.376	27.241	27.096
Kingdom of Romania	34.358	34.419	34.033	33.599	32.805	31.673
Russia	11.681	12.089	12.643	14.517	16.800	19.480
Rwanda	24.427	26.083	24.401	22.129	19.703	18.341
Saint Kitts and Nevis	148.917	143.663	138.453	134.267	130.062	126.560
São Tomé and Príncipe	82.358	84.114	83.869	82.586	62.743	59.180
Saudi Arabia	7.091	6.076	5.104	4.314	3.622	3.033
Senegal	40.036	41.503	42.533	43.238	43.466	44.023
Serbia	44.073	44.503	43.102	40.791	38.181	35.620
Seychelles	78.790	73.396	66.872	59.802	54.880	49.338
Sierra Leone	61.118	33.178	33.112	34.854	35.633	34.811
Singapore	93.470	90.062	87.799	85.286	83.133	81.704
align="left"	\|44.941	46.938	47.112	46.869	46.110	45.387
Slovenia	43.638	47.160	49.216	50.798	52.117	53.497
Solomon Islands	23.128	20.646	18.722	16.893	15.147	13.601
South Africa	36.065	37.598	38.657	38.760	37.820	35.521
Spain	67.423	70.151	72.805	74.866	76.130	77.416
Saint Lucia	71.084	77.827	83.221	86.581	87.100	87.838
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	69.484	71.232	72.174	70.748	67.855	64.998
Sudan	78.220	87.285	90.478	92.476	95.174	94.826
Suriname	20.042	18.551	18.560	17.129	15.547	13.772
Swaziland	25.109	28.990	30.927	31.882	32.741	33.168
Sweden	36.033	32.586	29.158	25.731	22.436	19.251
Switzerland	52.435	51.188	49.989	49.067	47.722	46.414
Syria	27.529	27.902	27.671	27.367	27.098	26.901
Republic of China	38.455	37.887	35.454	33.077	30.842	28.714
Tajikistan	36.995	38.630	39.939	40.095	39.729	38.207
Tanzania	45.008	48.885	50.289	50.258	49.845	48.915
Thailand	42.970	43.452	44.463	45.275	46.180	47.093
Togo	27.616	27.255	27.874	27.914	26.461	27.186
Trinidad and Tobago	49.966	50.954	51.478	52.892	54.892	57.421
Tunisia	41.719	48.047	48.536	47.646	45.501	42.979
Turkey	40.340	38.085	36.324	35.139	34.186	33.246
Turkmenistan	20.540	26.829	27.479	24.727	16.971	10.877
Uganda	23.044	25.291	29.452	31.903	31.632	31.082
Ukraine	39.342	39.387	38.999	39.253	38.418	35.143
United Arab Emirates	18.498	18.108	18.117	18.426	18.633	19.163
United Kingdom	80.762	84.766	85.948	85.101	83.060	80.386
United States	100.046	105.031	108.930	111.363	113.195	115.394
Uruguay	49.344	46.877	45.282	43.620	41.492	40.142
Uzbekistan	12.583	14.006	15.516	17.050	18.650	20.209
Venezuela	43.900	50.800	54.801	58.501	62.401	66.401
Vietnam	50.338	48.146	47.241	46.360	45.371	44.249
Yemen	42.861	44.435	46.917	48.343	49.628	49.840
Zambia	25.124	28.688	29.821	29.885	29.099	28.404
Zimbabwe	72.755	73.029	72.125	72.845	73.160	61.436