National debt as a percentage of GDP in the UK 1900-2028
Public sector net debt amounted to 97.2 percent of gross domestic product in the United Kingdom during the 2021/22 financial year, the highest it has been since the early 1960s. After the end of the Second World War, government debt in the UK gradually fell, before a sharp increase is visible in the late 2000s at the time of the global financial crisis.