This study has been carried out to investigate the relationship between government debt and economic growth based on GDP per capita. Government expenditure and household expenditure also has been used as other independent variable. This study also investigates the long run and short run between those dependent variables with GDP per capita in Malaysia. This study used secondary data by collecting time series data along 1985 till 2017 that is within 32 years. The data is collected from the World Bank Data, Bank Negara Malaysia and International Monetary Fund, IMF. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model is applied in this study to examine the relationship between debt and economic growth. The results shows that there is a long- and shortterm relationship for all the variables. Government debt reveals that in the long run, it has a positive relationship and significant with the GDP. These empirical results are in line with prior empirical research that looked at the effect .....

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