Press Release - Structure of government debt in 2015 Long-term initial maturities largely prevail among EU Member States Debt mainly held by non-residents in around half of Member States
With slightly more than a quarter (27%) of total government debt having a term below one year, Sweden registered in 2015 the highest proportion of short-term initial maturities of debt among the Member States for which data are available.
Hungary (15%), Italy and Portugal (both 14%) as well as France (11%) also recorded shares of shortterm maturity debt above 10%. At the opposite end of the scale, almost all debt was made up of long-term maturities in Estonia, Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia. This information comes from a report released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
It provides detailed information on general government debt in the EU Member States broken down by subsector, financial instrument, debt holder, maturity, currency of issuance as well as government guarantees and other features. Only a small selection is published in this news release.
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