Bangladesh vs Pakistan: Government debt

Government debt in 2025: 42% of GDP in Bangladesh and 72.8% of GDP in Pakistan, by IMF estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Pakistan, by 30.7 percentage points, or 1.73 times that in Bangladesh.

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% of GDP · IMF

BangladeshPakistanIMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026)

What the numbers say

Pakistan has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2003.
In 2025, Bangladesh ranked 98 and Pakistan ranked 35 of 149 countries, counting from the highest.
The IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026) puts Bangladesh at 49.4% of GDP and Pakistan at 57.4% of GDP in 2031.

Every year

% of GDP · IMF

Year	Bangladesh	Pakistan
2025	42	72.8
2024	41	70.3
2023	39.7	78.5
2022	37.9	77.3
2021	35.6	74.8
2020	34.5	80.8
2019	32	78.7
2018	29.6	66.3
2017	28.3	62.1
2016	27.7	62.1
2015	28.2	59.1
2014	28.7	58.8
2013	28.3	59.2
2012	29.1	58.4
2011	29.4	56.2
2010	29.6	56.7
2009	33	54.6
2008	33.9	49.5
2007	35	44.2
2006	35.3	46.2
2005	35.6	47.9
2004	36.6	50.6
2003	37	56.3
2002	–	60.5
2001	–	65.2
2000	–	61.7
1999	–	60.7
1998	–	53.8
1997	–	52.8
1996	–	52.5
1995	–	52.3
1994	–	58.5

IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026) · 2026–2031

Year	Bangladesh	Pakistan
2026	40.5	69.9
2027	40.4	67.7
2028	42.8	64.5
2029	45.5	61.3
2030	47.6	59.6
2031	49.4	57.4

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What the government owes, as a share of the economy’s yearly output.
Source: IMF, World Economic Outlook, October 2026.
The dashed line is the IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026), a scenario rather than a forecast.
Ranks count the 149 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.

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