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Cyprus debt at 108.9% in 2015

21/04/2016 13:28
Cyprus had a deficit of -1% in 2015, amounting to -180 million euro, according to Eurostat. The country`s GDP reached 17421 billion euro, government expenditure 40.1 million, revenues at 39 million, while public debt reached 18964 billion or 108.9% of GDP.

At the same time Greece reached a deficit of -7,2% or 12.757 billion euro, at a GDP of 176023, revenues or 48.1 billion expenditure of 55.3 billion and a total public debt of 311.452 billion euro, or 176.9% of GDP

In 2015, the government deficit and debt of both the euro area (EA19) and the EU28 decreased in relative terms compared with 2014. In the euro area the government deficit to GDP ratio fell from 2.6% in 2014 to 2.1% in 2015, and in the EU28 from 3.0% to 2.4%. In the euro area the government debt to GDP ratio declined from 92.0% at the end of 2014 to 90.7% at the end of 2015, and in the EU28 from 86.8% to 85.2%.

In this release, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, is providing government deficit and debt data based on figures reported in the first 2016 notification by EU Member States for the years 2012-2015, for the application of the excessive deficit procedure (EDP). This notification is based on the ESA 2010 system of national accounts. This release also includes data on government expenditure and revenue.

In 2015, Luxembourg (+1.2%), Germany (+0.7%) and Estonia (+0.4%) registered a government surplus, while Sweden (0.0%) reported a government balance. The lowest government deficits as a percentage of GDP were recorded in Lithuania (-0.2%), the Czech Republic (-0.4%), Romania (-0.7%) and Cyprus (-1.0%). Seven Member States had deficits equal to or higher than 3% of GDP: Greece (-7.2%), Spain (-5.1%), Portugal and the United Kingdom (-4.4% each), France (-3.5%), Croatia (-3.2%) and Slovakia (-3.0%).

At the end of 2015, the lowest ratios of government debt to GDP were recorded in Estonia (9.7%), Luxembourg (21.4%), Bulgaria (26.7%), Latvia (36.4%) and Romania (38.4%). Seventeen Member States had government debt ratios higher than 60% of GDP, with the highest registered in Greece (176.9%), Italy (132.7%), Portugal (129.0%), Cyprus (108.9%) and Belgium (106.0%). In 2015, government expenditure in the euro area was equivalent to 48.6% of GDP and government revenue to 46.6%.

The figures for the EU28 were 47.4% and 45.0% respectively. In both zones, the government expenditure and government revenue ratios decreased between 2014 and 2015.