Egypt vs United Arab Emirates: Government debt

Government debt: 90.9% of GDP in Egypt in 2024 and 33.9% of GDP in United Arab Emirates in 2025, by IMF estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Egypt, by 57.7 percentage points, or 2.74 times that in United Arab Emirates.

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% of GDP · IMF

EgyptUnited Arab EmiratesIMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026)

What the numbers say

Egypt has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1999.
The IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026) puts Egypt at 71.5% of GDP and United Arab Emirates at 26.1% of GDP in 2031.

Every year

% of GDP · IMF

Year	Egypt	United Arab Emirates
2025	86.8	33.9
2024	90.9	33.2
2023	95.9	31.9
2022	88.5	31.5
2021	89.9	35.7
2020	86.2	30.1
2019	80.1	25.8
2018	88	20.7
2017	97.8	21.2
2016	91.6	18.6
2015	83.8	15.6
2014	80.9	13.5
2013	79.8	15.3
2012	69.9	20.2
2011	72.8	20.4
2010	69.6	18.3
2009	69.5	21.1
2008	66.8	8.9
2007	76.3	8.9
2006	85.9	5.1
2005	98.3	4.5
2004	96.5	4.1
2003	97.1	3.3
2002	85.8	3.4
2001	79.2	2.7
2000	71.7	3.1
1999	72.4	4.7
1998	73.8	–

12.3Projected

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

Year	Egypt	United Arab Emirates
2026	84	32.8
2027	82.9	30.8
2028	81.4	29
2029	78	27.4
2030	75	27
2031	71.5	26.1

Each country on its own

Good to know

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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Deaths in conflictsEgypt: 157 deaths in 2022United Arab Emirates: 3 deaths in 2022