Italy's debt-to-GDP ratio rose to 132.2% in 2018, up from 131.4% in 2017, Eurostat said on Tuesday.
The EU's statistics office said Italy's public debt was the highest in the bloc after Greece's at 181.1%.
It said Italy's deficit-to-GDP ratio for 2018 was 2.1%, down from 2.4% in 2017.
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