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International Monetary Fund · Public Sector

Central Government Debt (IMF)

Total stock of debt liabilities issued by the central government as a share of GDP.

Coverage
172 of 238 countries
Latest data
2024
Series
172
Unit
percent
Licence
IMF Terms and Conditions
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator
imf-central-government-debt
Interva ID
imf-central-government-debt

Recency

current

data to 2024; catalog to 2025

Provenance

1 step

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2024; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 1 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

100%

36 of 172 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 172 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 53 observations; the earliest begins in 1950.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

Central Government Debt (IMF) for each of the 172 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania202459.23percent
Algeria202446.20percent
Angola202462.50percent
Antigua and Barbuda202467.06percent
Argentina202485.33percent
Armenia202450.30percent
Australia202436.79percent
Austria202462.12percent
Azerbaijan202420.85percent
Bahamas202477.79percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as International Monetary Fund declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Monetary Fund

    GDD — Global Debt Database (Sep 2025)

    declared by imf in dataset/source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

International Monetary Fund (2026). Central Government Debt (IMF). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/imf-central-government-debt (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-imf-central-government-debt,
  title        = {Central Government Debt (IMF)},
  author       = {International Monetary Fund},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/imf-central-government-debt}},
  note         = {Interva dataset imf-central-government-debt; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

API access

Every fact on this page is available from the API.

curl https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/imf-central-government-debt
curl -o imf-central-government-debt.csv https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/imf-central-government-debt/download
curl "https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/imf-central-government-debt/citation?accessed=YYYY-MM-DD"
curl https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/imf-central-government-debt/quality

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