El Salvador - Central government debt

Central government debt, total (current LCU)

The value for Central government debt, total (current LCU) in El Salvador was 12,595,430,000 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 18 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13,722,200,000 in 2013 and a minimum value of 2,696,210,000 in 1998.

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
1998 2,696,210,000
1999 3,181,090,000
2000 3,226,290,000
2001 4,344,400,000
2002 7,908,400,000
2003 7,669,700,000
2004 7,754,600,000
2005 8,262,600,000
2006 8,081,900,000
2007 8,247,700,000
2008 8,710,500,000
2009 10,234,800,000
2010 10,606,500,000
2011 11,067,350,000
2013 13,722,200,000
2014 11,486,060,000
2015 12,018,760,000
2016 12,595,430,000

Central government debt, total (% of GDP)

Central government debt, total (% of GDP) in El Salvador was 52.07 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 18 years was 62.45 in 2002, while its lowest value was 24.65 in 1998.

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
1998 24.65
1999 28.19
2000 27.38
2001 35.37
2002 62.45
2003 57.91
2004 56.50
2005 56.22
2006 50.51
2007 48.48
2008 48.43
2009 58.15
2010 57.49
2011 54.56
2013 62.40
2014 50.84
2015 51.28
2016 52.07

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance