Central government debt in Asia

14 countries in Asia, 2019. Unit: % of GDP. World ranking →

First in the ranking
18.5 %
Kazakhstan
Median country
50.7 %
half above, half below
Range
18.5 to 127.9
Kazakhstan - Singapore

How to read it

Across 14 countries in Asia, the highest value is in Singapore (127.9 %) and the lowest in Kazakhstan (18.5 %).

The median country is at 50.7 %: half are above, half below.

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…

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Source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) · via World Bank WDI (GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS) · licence

Government debt over time

%

Ranking of countries

2019
In chart Share of the highest value
1Kazakhstan18.5
2Nepal31.8
3Türkiye33.5
4South Korea37.7
5Thailand38.6
6Georgia44.7
7Armenia50.0
8Kyrgyzstan51.3
9Malaysia52.4
10Mongolia60.8
11Jordan72.6
12Bhutan90.4
13Bahrain91.4
14Singapore127.9
World Bank, WDI · GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS · 2019 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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