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    General government gross debt as a percentage of GDP increased across all country income groups between 2010 and 2020, with high-income countries seeing the largest rise from 58.8% in 2010 to 79.2% in 2020. Upper-middle-income countries experienced the second largest increase over this period, from 36.7% to 67% of GDP. Low-income countries had general government debt levels below 40% of GDP throughout 2010-2020.

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    General government gross debt as a percentage of GDP increased across all country income groups between 2010 and 2020, with high-income countries seeing the largest rise from 58.8% in 2010 to 79.2% in 2020. Upper-middle-income countries experienced the second largest increase over this period, from 36.7% to 67% of GDP. Low-income countries had general government debt levels below 40% of GDP throughout 2010-2020.

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    General government gross debt as a percentage of GDP increased across all country income groups between 2010 and 2020, with high-income countries seeing the largest rise from 58.8% in 2010 to 79.2% in 2020. Upper-middle-income countries experienced the second largest increase over this period, from 36.7% to 67% of GDP. Low-income countries had general government debt levels below 40% of GDP throughout 2010-2020.

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    Figure 5.

    1 General government gross debt, by country income group, 2010–20


    80 79.2

    70 68.4
    65.6
    67.0
    Share of GDP (%)

    60.9
    60 61.4
    58.8 55.6

    50 54.4

    41.0
    40 39.8
    36.7
    30
    2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

    High-income Upper-middle-income Lower-middle-income Low-income

    Source: WDR 2022 team, using data from World Bank, World Development Indicators (database), https://datatopics.world
    bank.org/world-development-indicators/; International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database: Download WEO
    Data, April 2021 Edition (dashboard), https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2021/April.
    Note: The figure shows the general public debt stock as a share of the gross domestic product (GDP) by World Bank income
    classification.

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