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Euro Area Government Debt to GDP
Last Release
Dec 31, 2021
Actual
95.6
Units In
% of GDP
Previous
97.2
Frequency
Yearly
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Highest | Lowest | Average | Date Range | Source |
97.2 Dec 2020 | 66 Dec 2007 | 79.33 % of GDP | 1995-2021 | Eurostat |
Generally, Government debt as a percent of GDP is used by investors to measure a country ability to make future payments on its debt, thus affecting the country borrowing costs and government bond yields.
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The government debt to GDP ratio in the Euro Area fell to 91.5 percent at the end of 2022 from a downwardly revised 95.4 percent in 2021. Considering the European Union as a whole, the government debt to GDP decreased to 84% from 88%. The highest ratios of government debt to GDP were recorded in Greece (171.3%), Italy (144.4%), Portugal (113.9%), Spain (113.2%), France (111.6%) and Belgium (105.1%), and the lowest in Estonia (18.4%), Bulgaria (22.9%) and Luxembourg (24.6%). Four Member States registered an increase in their debt to GDP ratio and twenty-three Member States a decrease. The increases in the ratio were recorded in Czechia (+2.1 pp), Estonia (+0.8 pp), Finland (+0.4 pp) and Luxembourg (+0.1 pp), while the largest decreases were observed in Greece (-23.3 pp), Cyprus (-14.7 pp), Portugal (-11.5 pp), Ireland (-10.7 pp), Croatia (-10.0 pp), Denmark (-6.6 pp), Italy (-5.5 pp), Lithuania (-5.3 pp), and Spain (-5.0 pp).
Euro Area Government Debt to GDP History
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