Official data
France: public debt by year, 2000–2025
General government gross debt, % of GDP
Latest year, 2025: 115.5%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare public debt as a share of GDP since 2000 across France, Spain, Portugal, and United States.
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 | 115.5 |
| 2024 | 112.6 |
| 2023 | 109.5 |
| 2022 | 111.4 |
| 2021 | 112.8 |
| 2020 | 114.9 |
| 2019 | 98.2 |
| 2018 | 98.5 |
| 2017 | 98.8 |
| 2016 | 98.1 |
| 2015 | 97 |
| 2014 | 96.2 |
| 2013 | 94.6 |
| 2012 | 91.7 |
| 2011 | 88.7 |
| 2010 | 86.3 |
| 2009 | 84.1 |
| 2008 | 69.8 |
| 2007 | 65.5 |
| 2006 | 65.4 |
| 2005 | 68.2 |
| 2004 | 66.9 |
| 2003 | 65.4 |
| 2002 | 61.3 |
| 2001 | 59.3 |
| 2000 | 59.7 |