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Estonia EU country with the lowest gov't debt to GDP ratio

Low levels also in Bulgaria, Czechia, Lithuania

21 October, 15:54
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, OCTOBER 21 - At the end of 2018, the lowest ratio of government debt to GDP among EU member states was recorded in Estonia (8.4%), Eurostat said today. Low levels of debt were registered also in Luxembourg (21.0%), Bulgaria (22.3%), Czechia (32.6%), Lithuania (34.1%) and Denmark (34.2%), while the highest were recorded in in Greece (181.2%), Italy (134.8%) and Portugal (122.2%). Relative low levels of government debt are recorded in all EU countries in Central- and Eastern Europe. At the end of 2018, the government debt to GDP ratio was 74.8% in Croatia (78% in 2017), 36.4% in Latvia (38.6% in 2017), 70.2% in Hungary (72.9% in 2017), 48.9% in Poland (50.6% in 2017), 35% in Romania (35.1% in 2017), 70.4% in Slovenia (74.1% in 2017) and 49.4% in Slovakia (51.3% in 2017). In the euro area the government debt to GDP ratio declined from 87.8% at the end of 2017 to 85.9% at the end of 2018, and in the EU28 from 82.1% to 80.4, Eurostat said. (ANSA).

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