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473 General government gross public debt in selected EU/EEA member countries and USA/Japan as a percentage of GDP1, by Maastricht definition2
  2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011* 2012*
Norway 27.5 34.4 42.4 44.0 42.5 53.8 50.7 48.2 43.0 43.0 28.7 29.6
Denmark 49.6 49.5 47.2 45.1 37.8 32.1 27.1 33.4 40.7 42.7 46.4 45.8
Finland 42.5 41.5 44.5 44.4 41.7 39.6 35.2 33.9 43.5 48.6 49.0 53.0
Sweden 54.7 52.5 51.7 50.3 50.4 45.3 40.2 38.8 42.6 39.4 38.4 38.2
                         
Belgium  106.5  103.4 98.4 94.0 92.0 88.0 84.0 89.2 95.7 95.5 97.8 99.6
France 56.9 58.8 62.9 64.9 66.4 63.7 64.2 68.2 79.2 82.4 85.8 90.2
Greece  103.7  101.7 97.4 98.6  100.0  106.1  107.4  112.9  129.7  148.3  170.3  156.9
Ireland 35.2 32.0 30.7 29.5 27.3 24.6 25.1 44.5 64.8 92.1  106.4  117.6
Italy  108.3  105.4  104.1  103.7  105.7  106.3  103.3  106.1  116.4  119.3  120.8  127.0
Luxembourg 6.3 6.3 6.1 6.3 6.1 6.7 6.7 14.4 15.3 19.2 18.3 20.8
Netherlands 50.7 50.5 52.0 52.4 51.8 47.4 45.3 58.5 60.8 63.1 65.5 71.2
Poland 37.6 42.2 47.1 45.7 47.1 47.7 45.0 47.1 50.9 54.8 56.2 55.6
Portugal 53.8 56.8 59.4 61.9 67.7 69.4 68.4 71.7 83.7 94.0  108.3  123.6
Slovakia 48.9 43.4 42.4 41.5 34.2 30.5 29.6 27.9 35.6 41.0 43.3 52.1
Spain 55.6 52.6 48.8 46.3 43.2 39.7 36.3 40.2 53.9 61.5 69.3 84.2
United Kingdom 37.7 37.7 39.1 41.0 42.2 43.3 44.2 52.7 67.8 79.4 85.5 90.0
Czech Republic 23.9 27.1 28.6 28.9 28.4 28.3 27.9 28.7 34.2 37.8 40.8 45.8
Germany 59.1 60.7 64.4 66.2 68.5 68.0 65.2 66.8 74.5 82.4 80.4 81.9
Hungary 52.7 55.9 58.6 59.5 61.7 65.9 67.0 73.0 79.8 81.8 81.4 79.2
Austria 66.8 66.2 65.3 64.7 64.2 62.3 60.2 63.8 69.2 72.0 72.5 73.4
United States3 54.4 56.8 60.2 67.8 67.4 66.1 66.5 75.4 88.8 97.8  102.2  109.8
Japan4  144.7  153.5  158.3  166.3  169.5  166.8  162.4  171.1  188.7  192.7  205.3  214.3
1  Gross domestic product.
2  General government gross public debt excludes internal debt between units in the public sector. According to the Maastricht definition gross public debt should not exceed 60 per cent of GDP.
3  Definition SNA 1993 (ESA 1995) used instead of the Maastricht definition.
4  Definition SNA 1993 (ESA 1995) used instead of the Maastricht definition and includes corporate debt from Japan Railway Settlement Corp. and National Forest Special Account.
Source: Norway: General government financial assets and liabilities, Statistics Norway. For the EU-countries: EUROSTAT, and for USA/Japan: OECD.
More information:  http://www.epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/ and  http://www.oecd.org/ 

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