Botswana - Central government debt

Central government debt, total (current LCU)

The value for Central government debt, total (current LCU) in Botswana was 25,986,220,000 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26,159,250,000 in 2015 and a minimum value of 801,930,000 in 1990.

Definition: Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1990 801,930,000
1991 965,800,000
1992 1,096,300,000
1993 1,254,500,000
1994 1,377,000,000
1995 1,438,900,000
1996 1,797,900,000
2006 3,483,530,000
2007 3,855,360,000
2008 5,863,580,000
2009 13,938,100,000
2010 18,790,020,000
2011 21,776,160,000
2012 21,914,260,000
2013 22,794,370,000
2014 25,447,260,000
2015 26,159,250,000
2016 25,986,220,000

Central government debt, total (% of GDP)

Central government debt, total (% of GDP) in Botswana was 15.80 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 26 years was 21.63 in 2010, while its lowest value was 5.74 in 2007.

Definition: Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1990 11.37
1991 12.12
1992 12.53
1993 12.45
1994 12.04
1995 10.97
1996 11.16
2006 5.89
2007 5.74
2008 7.85
2009 18.97
2010 21.63
2011 20.74
2012 19.95
2013 18.21
2014 18.11
2015 19.02
2016 15.80

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance