Haiti vs Mexico: Government debt

Government debt: 15.1% of GDP in Haiti in 2024 and 61.7% of GDP in Mexico in 2025, by IMF estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Mexico, by 43.9 percentage points, or 3.9 times that in Haiti.

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% of GDP · IMF

HaitiMexicoIMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026)

What the numbers say

Mexico has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1997.
The IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026) puts Haiti at 10.3% of GDP and Mexico at 64.5% of GDP in 2031.

Every year

% of GDP · IMF

Year	Haiti	Mexico
2025	12.4	61.7
2024	15.1	59
2023	27.9	52.7
2022	29.2	53.8
2021	28.4	56.7
2020	22.3	58.5
2019	26.5	51.9
2018	24.1	52.2
2017	22.5	52.5
2016	24.4	55
2015	23.9	51
2014	21.4	47.1
2013	25.1	44.1
2012	24.1	40.8
2011	22.3	41.2
2010	24.9	40.2
2009	19.4	41.7
2008	33.9	40.6
2007	24.4	35.5
2006	32.2	35.8
2005	29.7	36.8
2004	30.5	38.9
2003	37.8	42.1
2002	32	39.9
2001	28.8	37.3
2000	32.5	38.5
1999	24.2	41.7
1998	24	39.7
1997	26.2	39.1
1996	–	42.5

12.3Projected

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

Year	Haiti	Mexico
2026	10.5	62.1
2027	9.4	62.9
2028	9.3	63.4
2029	9.5	64
2030	9.9	64.3
2031	10.3	64.5

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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