COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Sri Lanka Government Debt
Sri Lanka government debt: latest available value for 2024, historical series from 1990, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 100,80 | -9,60 |
| 2023 | 110,40 | -5,50 |
| 2022 | 115,90 | 13,20 |
| 2021 | 102,70 | 5,80 |
| 2020 | 96,90 | 14,30 |
| 2019 | 82,60 | -1,00 |
| 2018 | 83,60 | 11,30 |
| 2017 | 72,30 | -2,70 |
| 2016 | 75,00 | -1,30 |
| 2015 | 76,30 | 6,70 |
| 2014 | 69,60 | 0,10 |
| 2013 | 69,50 | 2,00 |
| 2012 | 67,50 | -1,90 |
| 2011 | 69,40 | 0,70 |
| 2010 | 68,70 | -4,10 |
| 2009 | 72,80 | 4,00 |
| 2008 | 68,80 | -3,00 |
| 2007 | 71,80 | -2,50 |
| 2006 | 74,30 | -2,30 |
| 2005 | 76,60 | -9,90 |
| 2004 | 86,50 | 0,00 |
| 2003 | 86,50 | -9,80 |
| 2002 | 96,30 | 11,90 |
| 2001 | 84,40 | 5,20 |
| 2000 | 79,20 | 1,50 |
| 1999 | 77,70 | 3,50 |
| 1998 | 74,20 | 4,10 |
| 1997 | 70,10 | -6,10 |
| 1996 | 76,20 | -1,60 |
| 1995 | 77,80 | -0,10 |
| 1994 | 77,90 | -1,30 |
| 1993 | 79,20 | 1,30 |
| 1992 | 77,90 | -2,60 |
| 1991 | 80,50 | 1,60 |
| 1990 | 78,90 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year. Central government is the part of general government that includes all administrative departments of the national executive, legislative, and judicial functions, other central agencies and those non-market producers controlled by the central government, whose competence extends normally over the whole economic territory. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Source organization: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesSri Lanka recorded 100,80 percent of GDP in 2024, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2023, the government debt decreased by 9,60.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 35 observations from 1990 to 2024, the average was 80,82; the minimum was 67,50 in 2012 and the maximum was 115,90 in 2022.
Sri Lanka ranks 169 out of 192 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is above the available average for South Asia.
It is also above the available average for the Upper middle income group.
Public debt burden and fiscal room.