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). source: EUROSTAT
Government Debt to GDP in Euro Area averaged 79.77 percent of GDP from 1995 until 2022, reaching an all time high of 97.20 percent of GDP in 2020 and a record low of 65.90 percent of GDP in 2007. This page provides the latest reported value for - Euro Area Government Debt to GDP - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Euro Area Government Debt to GDP - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on June of 2023.