IndiaTrackerCentre debt
Central government liabilities, % of GDP, end-March. Annual, per cent. Latest: 56.17 (FY26).
Level
per cent
About this series
| Series id | centre_debt_pct_gdp |
| Source | RBI: Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy (tables 239, 240) |
| Coverage | FY86 to FY26 (41 observations) |
| Release | Handbook published each year (around August) |
| Updated by | Daily automated pipeline · pipelines/sources/rbi/general_government.py |
| Licence | Terms not yet reviewed; not offered for download |
| Notes | Domestic plus external liabilities of the Centre, external at current exchange rates (Table 240). Period = 1 April of the financial year. |
| Checked against the official release | Not yet. Values come straight from the publisher, but no one has yet compared them with the press release. |
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Cite: IndiaTracker (2026). Central government liabilities, % of GDP, end-March [centre_debt_pct_gdp]. Retrieved 1 Nov 2026. Original source: RBI.
Latest observations
| Period | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| FY26 | 56.17 | Budget Estimates |
| FY25 | 56.15 | Revised Estimates |
| FY24 | 57.58 | |
| FY23 | 58.08 | |
| FY22 | 58.92 | |
| FY21 | 62.58 | |
| FY20 | 52.51 | |
| FY19 | 49.62 | |
| FY18 | 49.47 | |
| FY17 | 49.54 | |
| FY16 | 51.54 | |
| FY15 | 51.42 | |
| FY14 | 52.16 | |
| FY13 | 52.55 | |
| FY12 | 53.46 | |
| FY11 | 52.16 | |
| FY10 | 56.27 | |
| FY09 | 58.62 | |
| FY08 | 58.86 | |
| FY07 | 61.40 | |
| FY06 | 63.90 | |
| FY05 | 65.53 | |
| FY04 | 65.98 | |
| FY03 | 66.85 |
Revisions
No revisions recorded since this series was added. When the publisher revises a past value, the old and new values appear here.