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1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
| Public finance |
in % of Gross Domestic Product |
| General government deficit/surplus |
-1,7 |
-2,7 |
-3,8 |
-4,0 |
-4,2 |
| General government debt |
: |
13,0 |
14,0 |
15,0 |
17,3 |
- Public finance:
- The government deficit and debt statistics of the Candidate Countries are provisional, in the sense that they do not yet fully comply with EU methodological requirements. Broadly speaking, the general government deficit / surplus refers to the national accounts concept of consolidated general government net borrowing / net lending of ESA95. General government debt is defined as consolidated gross debt at end-year nominal value. The series are available from 1997; the 1996 data are an approximation derived from the IMF's GFS methodology.
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