Egypt vs Vietnam

Egypt vs Vietnam: Government debt

Government debt: 90.9% of GDP in Egypt in 2024 and 30.5% of GDP in Vietnam in 2025, by IMF estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Egypt, by 59.8 percentage points, or 2.92 times that in Vietnam.

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% of GDP · IMF

Egypt vs Vietnam: Government debtGovernment debt: 90.9% of GDP in Egypt in 2024 and 30.5% of GDP in Vietnam in 2025, by IMF estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Egypt, by 59.8 percentage points, or 2.92 times that in Vietnam.
EgyptVietnamIMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026)

What the numbers say

  • Egypt has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2000.
  • The IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026) puts Egypt at 71.5% of GDP and Vietnam at 24.5% of GDP in 2031.

Every year

% of GDP · IMF

YearEgyptVietnam
202586.830.5
202490.931.2
202395.934.3
202288.534.9
202189.939.2
202086.241.3
201980.141
20188843.8
201797.846.6
201691.647.9
201583.846.1
201480.943.4
201379.841.4
201269.938.3
201172.836.2
201069.637.3
200969.536.2
200866.831.1
200776.332.2
200685.930.3
200598.328.7
200496.529.4
200397.129.8
200285.827.7
200179.225.4
200071.724.8
199972.4–
199873.8–
  • 12.3Projected
IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026) · 2026–2031
YearEgyptVietnam
20268428.3
202782.926.2
202881.425.3
20297824.6
20307524.4
203171.524.5

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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