Kenya vs Singapore: Government debt

Government debt: 71.3% of GDP in Kenya in 2025 and 165.8% of GDP in Singapore in 2024, by IMF estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Singapore, by 98.5 percentage points, or 2.46 times that in Kenya.

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% of GDP · IMF

KenyaSingaporeIMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026)

What the numbers say

Singapore has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1998.
The IMF projection (World Economic Outlook, October 2026) puts Kenya at 74% of GDP and Singapore at 169.2% of GDP in 2031.

Every year

% of GDP · IMF

Year	Kenya	Singapore
2025	71.3	165.7
2024	67.3	165.8
2023	73.4	170.4
2022	67.8	153.3
2021	68.2	139.9
2020	68	147.1
2019	59.1	127.7
2018	56.5	109.2
2017	53.9	107.3
2016	50.4	105.9
2015	45.8	102.1
2014	41.3	97.8
2013	39.8	98.2
2012	37.6	106.7
2011	35.7	103.1
2010	36.7	98.7
2009	36	101.7
2008	34.3	97.9
2007	34.2	87.8
2006	37.1	86.5
2005	37.4	92.7
2004	40.8	95.7
2003	43.8	99.1
2002	42	96.3
2001	41.3	94.5
2000	43.1	82.3
1999	38.4	85.3
1998	38.5	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	Kenya	Singapore
2026	72.9	166.4
2027	73.8	167.1
2028	74.5	167.9
2029	74.4	168.5
2030	74.3	169
2031	74	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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