Government Debt / Bhutan
Bhutan Government Debt
Bhutan government debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 111.01%.
COUNTRY: Bhutan
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-10-13 04:45:06
GM ECONOMY RATING
Bhutan · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
62 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
11.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
18.0 / 20
External stability
3.2 / 15
Financial robustness
8.0 / 15
Structural stability
12.0 / 15
Future capacity
9.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Bhutan · government debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
111.01%
Previous
90.36%
Range avg.
86.48%
Rank
6
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CountryBhutan
IndicatorGovernment Debt
111.01%2020 · Rank 6
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Bhutan recorded 111.01% for Government Debt in 2020, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2019, the indicator increased by 20.65 percentage points, from 90.36% to 111.01%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (86.48%).
Across the five latest available observations (2016–2020), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 57.55% in 2011 and the high was 111.01% in 2020.
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