Eurostat: Romania Had One Of Lowest Government Debts In EU In 1Q/2017

The highest ratios of government debt to GDP at the end of the first quarter of 2017 were recorded in Greece (176.2%), Italy (134.7%) and Portugal (130.5%), and the lowest in Estonia (9.2%), Luxembourg (23.0%) and Bulgaria (28.6%).

Compared with the fourth quarter of 2016, twelve Member States registered an increase in their debt to GDP ratio at the end of the first quarter of 2017, and fifteen a decrease. The highest increases in the ratio were recorded in the Czech Republic (+3.1 percentage points – pp), Luxembourg (+3.0 pp), Croatia (+2.6 pp) and France (+2.3 pp). The largest decreases were recorded in Greece (-2.9 pp), the Netherlands (-2.2 pp) and Austria (-2.0 pp).

Compared with the first quarter of 2016, eight Member States registered an increase in their debt to GDP ratio at the end of the first quarter of 2017, and nineteen a decrease. The highest increases in the ratio were recorded in Latvia (+2.7 pp) and Poland (+2.2 pp), while the largest decreases were recorded in the Netherlands (-4.7 pp), Germany (-4.0 pp), Austria (-3.8 pp), Malta (-2.9 pp) and Denmark (-2.7 pp).

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At the end of the first quarter of 2017, the government debt to GDP ratio in the euro area (EA19) stood at 89.5%, compared with 89.2% at the end of the fourth quarter of 2016. In the EU28, the ratio also increased from 83.6% to 84.1%.

Compared with the first quarter of 2016, the government debt to GDP ratio fell in both the euro area (from 91.2% to 89.5%) and the EU28 (from 84.3% to 84.1%), according to Eurostat.