Official data
Nigeria: public debt by year, 2000–2025
General government gross debt, % of GDP
Latest year, 2025: 36.1%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare public debt as a share of GDP since 2000 across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa.
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 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 39.3 |
| 2023 | 36.3 |
| 2022 | 29.8 |
| 2021 | 26.6 |
| 2020 | 25.7 |
| 2019 | 21.4 |
| 2018 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 18 |
| 2016 | 17.4 |
| 2015 | 14.9 |
| 2014 | 15.8 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2012 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 12.4 |
| 2010 | 6.7 |
| 2009 | 6.1 |
| 2008 | 5.2 |
| 2007 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 6.7 |
| 2005 | 13.4 |
| 2004 | 25.2 |
| 2003 | 29.9 |
| 2002 | 30.7 |
| 2001 | 37.7 |
| 2000 | 40.9 |