Iceland - Central government debt

Central government debt, total (current LCU)

The value for Central government debt, total (current LCU) in Iceland was 1,831,530,000,000 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,997,640,000,000 in 2012 and a minimum value of 112,784,000,000 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 112,784,000,000
1991 127,656,000,000
1992 153,412,000,000
1993 181,030,000,000
1994 197,106,000,000
1995 213,575,000,000
1996 225,677,000,000
1997 367,471,000,000
1998 381,213,000,000
1999 384,359,000,000
2000 413,376,000,000
2001 483,648,000,000
2002 480,876,000,000
2003 477,334,000,000
2004 468,517,000,000
2005 404,280,000,000
2006 518,384,000,000
2007 562,037,000,000
2008 1,227,330,000,000
2009 1,577,590,000,000
2010 1,713,200,000,000
2011 1,922,040,000,000
2012 1,997,640,000,000
2016 1,831,530,000,000

Central government debt, total (% of GDP)

Central government debt, total (% of GDP) in Iceland was 72.91 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 26 years was 108.90 in 2011, while its lowest value was 29.91 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, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1990 29.91
1991 31.32
1992 37.65
1993 43.06
1994 44.10
1995 46.34
1996 45.70
1997 68.47
1998 63.18
1999 59.16
2000 58.26
2001 60.28
2002 56.30
2003 54.44
2004 48.28
2005 38.09
2006 42.29
2007 40.52
2008 77.21
2009 97.00
2010 101.92
2011 108.90
2012 108.26
2016 72.91

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance