Official data
Benin: public debt by year, 2000–2025
General government gross debt, % of GDP
Latest year, 2025: 59.3%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare public debt as a share of GDP since 2000 across Benin, Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire.
Method
Official annual series (2000–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series GGXWDG_NGDP directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2000 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws the series as a line and marks the latest year.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- GGXWDG_NGDP
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 59.3 |
| 2024 | 60.5 |
| 2023 | 61.3 |
| 2022 | 59.7 |
| 2021 | 55.6 |
| 2020 | 46.1 |
| 2019 | 40.4 |
| 2018 | 40.8 |
| 2017 | 39.4 |
| 2016 | 35.9 |
| 2015 | 30.9 |
| 2014 | 22.3 |
| 2013 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 21.9 |
| 2010 | 21 |
| 2009 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 18.3 |
| 2007 | 14.3 |
| 2006 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 27 |
| 2004 | 21.5 |
| 2003 | 23.4 |
| 2002 | 30.8 |
| 2001 | 38 |
| 2000 | 39.6 |