Government debt securities outstanding in the UK 2000-2024

Published by Statista Research Department, Apr 16, 2025

The outstanding value of UK's general government debt securities has shown an upward trend from 2000 to 2024, rising from 294 billion British pounds in 2000 to over 2.5 trillion British pounds. The largest increase occurred between 2019 and 2020, when it went from 1.6 trillion to 1.9 trillion British pounds.

Outstanding value of general government debt securities in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2000 to 2024 (in billion British pounds)

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April 2025

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2000 to 2024

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This statistic is using original data from the Office for National Statistics and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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