New Zealand Government Debt
New Zealand government debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 51.99%.
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New Zealand · government debt data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
New Zealand recorded 51.99% for Government Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 2.11 percentage points, from 49.88% to 51.99%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (44.52%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 32.76% in 2019 and the high was 53.92% in 2022.