🇵🇼 Palau National Debt Clock

Palau's Debt Trajectory (2015–2025)

Palau's ratio has declined from its high for the period of 74% (2021) to roughly 53% at end-2025. A sharp one-year swing in this ratio can reflect a collapse in GDP or the currency as much as new borrowing. Source: IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026, general government gross debt.

Palau Net Debt and Interest

The IMF publishes no net debt figure for Palau, so only the gross figure can be shown. The IMF publishes no primary balance for Palau, so net interest cannot be derived.

Source: IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026, general government, 2025, mostly IMF estimates. Net debt leaves out equity holdings, and what counts as an asset varies by country. Net interest is the primary balance minus the overall balance. A government in default or arrears can show a low figure that understates what it owes. Data · method.

About Palau's National Debt

Palau's debt-to-GDP ratio of 53% is moderate: higher than 48% of the 194 governments tracked here. No ratio is safe or dangerous on its own — whether a debt is sustainable depends on the interest rate on it, how fast the economy grows, the currency it is owed in and who holds it. By total government debt, Palau ranks 187th of the 194 governments tracked here.

At the current borrowing rate of $0.47 per second, Palau adds about $41 thousand to its government debt every day — roughly $15 million per year. Each of Palau's 0 million residents carries an individual share of approximately $11,344. That is below the world average of roughly $14,700 in government debt per person.

Figures are computed by Global Debt Clock by linear extrapolation from each country's baseline figure, named in the source line on this page (for most countries, the IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026). Actual debt changes through discrete bond issuances — these counters illustrate the approximate scale and pace of sovereign borrowing.

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Data & Citation

Source: IMF WEO October 2026 (GGXWDG, end-2025 stock) · baseline anchored 2026-01-01. Methodology: debt = 185,816,000 + 0.47 × seconds_since(2026-01-01)

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