Official data
Zambia: public debt by year, 2000–2025
General government gross debt, % of GDP
Latest year, 2025: 100.6%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare public debt as a share of GDP since 2000 across Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa, and Mozambique.
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 | 100.6 |
| 2024 | 125.5 |
| 2023 | 136.8 |
| 2022 | 99.5 |
| 2021 | 111 |
| 2020 | 140 |
| 2019 | 103.3 |
| 2018 | 81.2 |
| 2017 | 66.6 |
| 2016 | 61.2 |
| 2015 | 61.9 |
| 2014 | 33.9 |
| 2013 | 25.9 |
| 2012 | 24.9 |
| 2011 | 20.8 |
| 2010 | 18.9 |
| 2009 | 20.5 |
| 2008 | 19.2 |
| 2007 | 21.9 |
| 2006 | 25 |
| 2005 | 75.7 |
| 2004 | 129.9 |
| 2003 | 159.5 |
| 2002 | 180.2 |
| 2001 | 210.2 |
| 2000 | 261 |