Economics: Debt to GDP, part 0: a few specifics

Self-tutoring about countries’ balance sheets: the tutor makes a few inquires.

Approx. Debt-to-GDP, %, Dec, 2020

  • EU: 91
  • France: 116
  • Germany: 70
  • UK: 95
  • US: 128
  • Canada: 118
  • Australia: 25
  • Afghanistan: 8
  • Congo: 15
  • Venezuela: 350

In my lifetime, some countries’ fortunes have fluctuated: for instance, Venezuela’s Debt-to-GDP was 5.1% in 2016. Canada’s, its seems to me, was in the low forties around 1981.

Different countries’ governments have different expectations placed on them: some run cheaply because they don’t provide the same services others do.

I hope to follow up.

Source:

tradingeconomics.com

tradingeconomics.com

tradingeconomics.com

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.

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