IndiaTrackerGeneral govt debt
General government debt (combined liabilities), % of GDP, end-March. Annual, per cent. Latest: 81.85 (FY26).
Level
per cent
About this series
| Series id | gg_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 | Combined liabilities of Centre and states at end-March of the year, net of intergovernmental holdings, so not the sum of the two (Table 240). From 1985-86. 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). General government debt (combined liabilities), % of GDP, end-March [gg_debt_pct_gdp]. Retrieved 1 Nov 2026. Original source: RBI.
Latest observations
| Period | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| FY26 | 81.85 | Budget Estimates |
| FY25 | 81.13 | Revised Estimates |
| FY24 | 82.14 | |
| FY23 | 82.88 | |
| FY22 | 84.23 | |
| FY21 | 89.24 | |
| FY20 | 75.12 | |
| FY19 | 70.53 | |
| FY18 | 69.57 | |
| FY17 | 68.77 | |
| FY16 | 68.53 | |
| FY15 | 66.58 | |
| FY14 | 67.06 | |
| FY13 | 66.65 | |
| FY12 | 67.36 | |
| FY11 | 65.60 | |
| FY10 | 70.60 | |
| FY09 | 72.21 | |
| FY08 | 71.44 | |
| FY07 | 74.66 | |
| FY06 | 79.07 | |
| FY05 | 82.13 | |
| FY04 | 83.23 | |
| FY03 | 82.86 |
Revisions
No revisions recorded since this series was added. When the publisher revises a past value, the old and new values appear here.