Norway government debt, debt-to-GDP, borrowing and interest

The latest official general government figures for Norway, as stored in Bullion API’s scheduled cache. Each figure shows its own period. Cached, not live.

Each figure keeps the government scope and definition its publisher uses. Scopes, periods and definitions differ between countries and aggregates, so these figures are not comparable across geographies.

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Cached observations, not live. Each value keeps its own date and definition. Government scopes and debt definitions differ. Only debt-to-GDP ratios are shown; monetary amounts in different currencies are excluded.

5 of 5 geographies have cached values for the measures shown.

Latest cached macro figures by geography, with observation dates and definitions
MeasureNorway This pageUnited StatesUnited KingdomAustraliaIceland
Debt to GDP (annual)
54.36% of GDPGross debt to GDP, year end (Bullion API calculation). Bullion API calculation: Norwegian general-government gross debt at 31 December (Statistics Norway table 08753) divided by that calendar year's gross domestic product at current market prices, total including petroleum (Statistics Norway national accounts table 09189), multiplied by 100. Not a ratio published by Statistics Norway. Bullion API calculation using Statistics Norway (SSB) data (www.ssb.no) licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); changes were made (the ratio is calculated by Bullion API). This does not imply endorsement by Statistics Norway.General government; annual; At 31 Dec 2025; Bullion API calculation using Statistics Norway (SSB) data (www.ssb.no) licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); changes were made (the ratio is calculated by Bullion API). This does not imply endorsement by Statistics Norway.
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51.75% of GDPGeneral-government gross L2 debt to GDP (annual, Bullion API calculation). Bullion API calculation, not an ABS-published ratio: All Australia general-government gross L2 debt at 30 June, valued at current market value using the ABS creditor approach, divided by the sum of current-price original quarterly GDP for the four quarters in the matching July-to-June financial year, multiplied by 100. The numerator is ABS Government Finance Statistics, Annual Table 14 (row "Equals L2", column "All Australia general government"); the denominator is ABS Australian National Accounts SDMX series ANA_AGG version 1.0.0, key M3.GPM.10.AUS.Q. See the ABS debt valuation methodology (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/detailed-methodology-information/concepts-sources-methods/australian-system-government-finance-statistics-concepts-sources-and-methods/2015/13-treatment-selected-items/part-b-treatment-debt-australian-gfs). This is not the net L2 debt-to-GDP ratio shown in Table 16. The calculated value is stored to eight decimal places.General government; annual; At 30 Jun 2025; Bullion API calculation using Australian Bureau of Statistics Government Finance Statistics, Annual and Australian National Accounts data. ABS website material is reused under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International subject to the exclusions and third-party rights in the ABS copyright terms (https://www.abs.gov.au/website-privacy-copyright-and-disclaimer#copyright-and-creative-commons); those terms require attribution to the ABS. The ABS does not endorse Bullion API.
88.25% of GDPstatice gross debt to gdp annual. Iceland: general-government total liabilities at 31 December as a Statistics Iceland-published percentage of annual GDP (THJ05181). Includes pension/insurance liabilities and payables; not Maastricht debt and not a Bullion API calculation. Full PX decimal precision.General government; annual; At 31 Dec 2025
Debt to GDP (quarterly)
60.84% of GDPGross debt to GDP, quarter end (Bullion API calculation). Bullion API calculation: Norwegian general-government gross debt at the end of the quarter (Statistics Norway table 11559) divided by gross domestic product at current market prices, total including petroleum, summed over that quarter and the three before it (Statistics Norway national accounts table 09190, not seasonally adjusted), multiplied by 100. Not a ratio published by Statistics Norway. Bullion API calculation using Statistics Norway (SSB) data (www.ssb.no) licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); changes were made (the ratio is calculated by Bullion API). This does not imply endorsement by Statistics Norway.General government; quarterly; At 30 Jun 2026; Bullion API calculation using Statistics Norway (SSB) data (www.ssb.no) licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); changes were made (the ratio is calculated by Bullion API). This does not imply endorsement by Statistics Norway.
121.19% of GDPFederal debt to GDP (Bullion API calculation). Bullion API calculation: total public debt outstanding at the end of the quarter divided by that quarter’s nominal GDP at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, multiplied by 100. Not a Treasury, FRED or BEA published ratio. This product uses the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Data API but is not endorsed or certified by BEA. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.Central government; quarterly; 1 Apr 2026 to 30 Jun 2026; Bullion API calculation using U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service data via FRED and U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data. This product uses the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Data API but is not endorsed or certified by BEA. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
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Debt to GDP (monthly)Not offeredNot offered
93.80% of GDPPublic sector net debt to GDP. UK public sector net debt excluding public sector banks as a percentage of gross domestic product at the end of each calendar month, not seasonally adjusted, as published by the ONS in Public sector finances (series HF6X). The ONS denominator is GDP for the 12 months centred on the month, which includes projected GDP for months not yet published, so recent ratios are revised as outturn GDP arrives. This is the ONS-published ratio, not a Bullion API calculation.Public sector; monthly; At 31 Aug 2026
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Unavailable means no cached observation is held. Not offered means no registered series exists for that measure. Dates may differ; older observations have not been updated to a common period.

Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), www.ssb.no

Statistics Norway data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes were made: values are stored as decimal text, and debt-to-GDP ratios are calculated by Bullion API from SSB tables. Bullion API is not endorsed by Statistics Norway.

U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

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Source: Office for National Statistics, Public Sector Finances.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Monthly, not seasonally adjusted; ONS revises earlier months in each monthly release.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, Annual (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/government/government-finance-statistics-annual) and Australian National Accounts (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/national-accounts/australian-national-accounts-national-income-expenditure-and-product), via the ABS Data API (https://data.api.abs.gov.au).

ABS website material is provided under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits commercial reuse, subject to the exclusions and third-party rights identified in the ABS copyright terms (https://www.abs.gov.au/website-privacy-copyright-and-disclaimer#copyright-and-creative-commons). Those terms require attribution to the ABS for material obtained from its website. This product uses the ABS Data API (Beta), whose availability and performance are not guaranteed and whose service may change. Bullion API is not endorsed by the ABS. ABS revises Government Finance Statistics regularly.

Source: Statistics Iceland, general government finances, THJ05181 and THJ05121.

CC BY 4.0 (https://www.statice.is/publications/open-data-access/). Full PX decimal precision; debt includes pension/insurance liabilities and payables and is not Maastricht debt. Bullion API is not endorsed by Statistics Iceland; modifications are not attributed to Statistics Iceland.

Debt

MeasureLatest cached valuePeriodGovernment scope
Gross debt, year endNorway: general-government (consolidated) gross public debt at nominal (face) value outstanding at 31 December, in millions of Norwegian kroner, total of all financial objects, from Statistics Norway table 08753. Gross, not net, and not the central-government debt of SSB table 05830.NOK 2,996,115.00 millionGeneral government
Gross debt, quarter endNorway: general-government (consolidated) gross public debt at nominal (face) value outstanding at the end of the quarter, in millions of Norwegian kroner, total of all financial objects, from Statistics Norway table 11559. Not seasonally adjusted; quarter-end stocks can move sharply from one quarter to the next. Gross, not net.NOK 3,427,445.00 millionGeneral government
Gross debt to GDP, year end (Bullion API calculation)Bullion API calculation: Norwegian general-government gross debt at 31 December (Statistics Norway table 08753) divided by that calendar year's gross domestic product at current market prices, total including petroleum (Statistics Norway national accounts table 09189), multiplied by 100. Not a ratio published by Statistics Norway. Bullion API calculation using Statistics Norway (SSB) data (www.ssb.no) licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); changes were made (the ratio is calculated by Bullion API). This does not imply endorsement by Statistics Norway.Bullion API calculation using Statistics Norway (SSB) data (www.ssb.no) licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); changes were made (the ratio is calculated by Bullion API). This does not imply endorsement by Statistics Norway.54.36% of GDPGeneral government
Gross debt to GDP, quarter end (Bullion API calculation)Bullion API calculation: Norwegian general-government gross debt at the end of the quarter (Statistics Norway table 11559) divided by gross domestic product at current market prices, total including petroleum, summed over that quarter and the three before it (Statistics Norway national accounts table 09190, not seasonally adjusted), multiplied by 100. Not a ratio published by Statistics Norway. Bullion API calculation using Statistics Norway (SSB) data (www.ssb.no) licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); changes were made (the ratio is calculated by Bullion API). This does not imply endorsement by Statistics Norway.Bullion API calculation using Statistics Norway (SSB) data (www.ssb.no) licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); changes were made (the ratio is calculated by Bullion API). This does not imply endorsement by Statistics Norway.60.84% of GDPGeneral government

Borrowing

MeasureLatest cached valuePeriodGovernment scope
Net lending (+) or borrowing (-), yearNorway: general-government net lending (+) or net borrowing (-) (national accounts revenue less expenditure) for the calendar year, in millions of Norwegian kroner at current prices, from Statistics Norway table 14668. A negative value is net borrowing (a deficit); a positive value is net lending (a surplus). Recent figures are revised in later releases.NOK 581,235.00 millionGeneral government
Net lending (+) or borrowing (-), quarterNorway: general-government net lending (+) or net borrowing (-) (national accounts revenue less expenditure) for the calendar quarter, not seasonally adjusted, in millions of Norwegian kroner at current prices, from Statistics Norway table 14667. A negative value is net borrowing (a deficit); a positive value is net lending (a surplus).NOK 219,524.00 millionGeneral government

Interest

MeasureLatest cached valuePeriodGovernment scope
Interest expenditure, yearNorway: general-government interest expense (national accounts item B41, interest) for the calendar year, in millions of Norwegian kroner at current prices, from Statistics Norway table 14668. Reported as a positive amount; interest received is a separate revenue item and is not netted. Statistics Norway publishes no quarterly interest item, so this series is annual only.NOK 83,384.00 millionGeneral government

Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), www.ssb.no

Statistics Norway data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes were made: values are stored as decimal text, and debt-to-GDP ratios are calculated by Bullion API from SSB tables. Bullion API is not endorsed by Statistics Norway.

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GET /v1/government-debt/no, GET /v1/government-borrowing/no, GET /v1/debt-interest/no returns the latest stored observation for each supported category as decimal strings, with its scope, unit, period and definition. Each endpoint is available on every plan, including the free plan for non-commercial Service use.