Zambia - Central government debt

Central government debt, total (current LCU)

The value for Central government debt, total (current LCU) in Zambia was 90,603,650,000 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 25 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90,603,650,000 in 2015 and a minimum value of 276,980,900 in 1990.

Definition: Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1990 276,980,900
1991 605,781,500
1992 938,076,200
1993 2,397,867,000
1994 3,652,300,000
1995 5,108,200,000
1996 7,644,500,000
1997 8,489,100,000
1998 10,621,200,000
2011 20,582,220,000
2012 30,834,310,000
2013 36,658,360,000
2014 74,164,630,000
2015 90,603,650,000

Central government debt, total (% of GDP)

Central government debt, total (% of GDP) in Zambia was 49.41 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 277.53 in 1991, while its lowest value was 18.05 in 2011.

Definition: Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1990 244.38
1991 277.53
1992 164.70
1993 161.79
1994 149.21
1995 155.28
1996 175.93
1997 150.07
1998 161.23
2011 18.05
2012 23.49
2013 24.22
2014 44.40
2015 49.41

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance