Government Debt / Nepal
Nepal Government Debt
Nepal government debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 39.92%.
COUNTRY: Nepal
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-17 13:00:11
GM ECONOMY RATING
Nepal · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
63 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
13.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
9.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
0.4 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Nepal · government debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
39.92%
Previous
39.05%
Range avg.
45.48%
Rank
47
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CountryNepal
IndicatorGovernment Debt
39.92%2021 · Rank 47
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Nepal recorded 39.92% for Government Debt in 2021, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2020, the indicator increased by 0.87 percentage points, from 39.05% to 39.92%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (45.48%).
Across the five latest available observations (2008–2021), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 31.78% in 2019 and the high was 62.59% in 2003.
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