Government Debt / Ethiopia
Ethiopia Government Debt
Ethiopia government debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 31.45%.
COUNTRY: Ethiopia
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-17 05:10:35
GM ECONOMY RATING
Ethiopia · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
61 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
11.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
8.0 / 15
Structural stability
8.8 / 15
Future capacity
7.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Ethiopia · government debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
31.45%
Previous
32.53%
Range avg.
41.60%
Rank
33
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CountryEthiopia
IndicatorGovernment Debt
31.45%2019 · Rank 33
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Ethiopia recorded 31.45% for Government Debt in 2019, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2018, the indicator decreased by 1.08 percentage points, from 32.53% to 31.45%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (41.60%).
Across the five latest available observations (2015–2019), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 10.73% in 2013 and the high was 83.47% in 1999.
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