(ANSA) - Rome, January 21 - Italy's debt-to-GDP ratio dropped
to 133% in the third quarter of 2018, down from 133.1% in the
previous three months and from 133.6% in the equivalent period
in 2017, Eurostat said on Monday.
Nevertheless, Italy's public debt ratio remains the
second-highest in the EU, the European statistics office said.
"The highest ratios of government debt to GDP at the end of
the third quarter of 2018 were recorded in Greece (182.2 %),
Italy (133.0%), Portugal (125.0%), Cyprus (110.9%) and Belgium
(105.4%), and the lowest in Estonia (8.0%), Luxembourg (21.7%)
and Bulgaria (23.1%)," Eurostat said.
Italy's debt-to-GDP ratio down to 133%
Second highest in EU after Greece says EU statistics agency