Papua New Guinea Government Debt
Papua New Guinea government debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 52.01%.
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Papua New Guinea · government debt data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Papua New Guinea recorded 52.01% for Government Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 0.37 percentage points, from 52.38% to 52.01%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (42.70%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 29.88% in 2015 and the high was 52.58% in 2021.