Press Release - 14/2018 - 24 January 2018 - Third quarter of 2017 compared with second quarter of 2017 Government debt fell to 88.1% of GDP in euro area Down to 82.5% of GDP in EU28
At the end of the third quarter of 2017, the government debt to GDP ratio in the euro area (EA19) stood at 88.1%, compared with 89.0% at the end of the second quarter of 2017. In the EU28, the ratio also decreased from 83.3% to 82.5%.