Government Debt / Bangladesh
Bangladesh Government Debt
Bangladesh government debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 31.20%.
COUNTRY: Bangladesh
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-17 05:10:35
GM ECONOMY RATING
Bangladesh · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
68 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
10.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
14.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
12.0 / 15
Structural stability
12.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Bangladesh · government debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
31.20%
Previous
31.86%
Range avg.
31.51%
Rank
34
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CountryBangladesh
IndicatorGovernment Debt
31.20%2003 · Rank 34
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Bangladesh recorded 31.20% for Government Debt in 2003, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2002, the indicator decreased by 0.66 percentage points, from 31.86% to 31.20%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 3 available observations (31.51%).
Within the last 3 available observations, the low was 31.20% in 2003 and the high was 31.86% in 2002.
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