Brazil vs Singapore: Government debt

Government debt: 93.3% of GDP in Brazil in 2025 and 165.8% of GDP in Singapore in 2024, by IMF estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Singapore, by 78.8 percentage points, or 1.91 times that in Brazil.

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% of GDP · IMF

BrazilSingaporeIMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026)

What the numbers say

Singapore has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2000.
The IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026) puts Brazil at 105.3% of GDP and Singapore at 169.2% of GDP in 2031.

Every year

% of GDP · IMF

Year	Brazil	Singapore
2025	93.3	165.7
2024	87	165.8
2023	84	170.4
2022	83.9	153.3
2021	88.9	139.9
2020	96	147.1
2019	87.1	127.7
2018	84.8	109.2
2017	82.8	107.3
2016	77.4	105.9
2015	71.7	102.1
2014	61.6	97.8
2013	59.6	98.2
2012	61.6	106.7
2011	60.6	103.1
2010	62.4	98.7
2009	64.7	101.7
2008	61.4	97.9
2007	63	87.8
2006	64.6	86.5
2005	67	92.7
2004	68	95.7
2003	71.5	99.1
2002	76.1	96.3
2001	67.3	94.5
2000	62.2	82.3
1999	–	85.3
1998	–	84.7
1997	–	70.8
1996	–	71.3
1995	–	69.8
1994	–	70.7
1993	–	71.2
1992	–	79
1991	–	76.4
1990	–	73.5

12.3Projected

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

Year	Brazil	Singapore
2026	97	166.4
2027	99.3	167.1
2028	101.3	167.9
2029	103.2	168.5
2030	104.5	169
2031	105.3	169.2

Each country on its own

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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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