Eurostat Government Debt And Deficit — General Government Gross Debt And Net Lending, % Of GDP And EUR Million, EU And Euro Area Countries, Annual (1995–Present)

DatasetCSV.GZOpenEurostatGovernment DebtFiscalDeficitEuropeAnnualFree

3,809 country-year observations from the Excessive Deficit Procedure tables for 31 geographies (EU and euro-area aggregates plus every EU member state): general government consolidated gross debt and net lending/net borrowing, each as a percentage of GDP and in million euro, 1995 to 2025, from the Eurostat dissemination API as of 2026-09-06. Long format with na_item and unit on every row.

Use Cases

Sovereign-risk and fiscal-sustainability screens
Maastricht-criteria monitoring
Debt-to-GDP inputs for European rates models

Methodology

JSON-stat 2.0 dataset decoded into long format (geo, na_item, unit, year, value); null cells dropped.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. Two EDP notifications a year, in April and October; refresh weekly.

Attribution

Source: Eurostat, dataset gov_10dd_edpt1; CC BY 4.0.

Schema

name	type
geo	string
geo_label	string
na_item	string
na_item_label	string
unit	string
year	integer
date	date
value	number

Sample Data

geo	date	unit	year	value	na_item	geo_label	na_item_label
AT	1995-01-01	MIO_EUR	1995	-11332.3	B9	Austria	Net lending (+)/net borrowing (-)
AT	1996-01-01	MIO_EUR	1996	-8504.5	B9	Austria	Net lending (+)/net borrowing (-)
AT	1997-01-01	MIO_EUR	1997	-4901.6	B9	Austria	Net lending (+)/net borrowing (-)
AT	1998-01-01	MIO_EUR	1998	-5340.9	B9	Austria	Net lending (+)/net borrowing (-)
AT	1999-01-01	MIO_EUR	1999	-5344.2	B9	Austria	Net lending (+)/net borrowing (-)

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Details

Date Range1995-01-01 — 2025-01-01

Rows3,809

Size24.6 KB

Files1

FormatCSV.GZ

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