Structure of government debt in Europe

European Commission Eurostat

Description

2005 data
Economic policy - Economic and Monetary Union
Economy and finance
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Sujets

• Economic survey of India
• Government debt
• Public administration
• Economic statistics

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 66
• Langue: English

Extrait

Statistics

in focus

ECONOMY AND FINANCE

56/2007

Government statistics

Authors

Anatole TOKOFAI

Sylvie VILLAUME

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Sub-sector breakdown ............. 2

Impact of consolidation............ 3

Breakdown

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Breakdown by debt holder....... 4

Maturity breakdown .................. 5

Short-term

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data based on EDP

notifications............................... 5

Other aspects ............................ 6

St r uc t ur e of gover nm ent

debt in Eur ope

2005 dat a

This publication analyses the structure of government debt in Europe based

on a survey

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carried out during summer 2006.

Total government debt data have been supplied to Eurostat in the context of

the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP) (October 2006 notifications).

At the end of 2005, the EU-25 overall government debt amounted to 63.2% of

GDP. This is slightly over the figure of 62.4% recorded at the end of 2004 and

the reference value of 60%.

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Figure 1: General government consolidated debt as percentage of GDP.

Source: EDP notifications.

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See methodological notes



Manuscript completed on: 24.04.2007

Data extracted on: 31.01.2007

ISSN 1977-0316

Catalogue number: KS-SF-07-056-EN-C

© European Communities, 2007