SGI 2022 | Sustainable Policies | Economic Policies | Budgets

How high is public debt per child under 15 years?

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Values among 41 countries

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Definition:	General government gross debt per child < 15 years, current prices, purchasing power parity adjusted
Year:	2021
Unit:	PPP, thsd. current int. USD
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	IMF World Economic Outlook, World Bank, World Development Indicators
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, NZL, GBR, USA
Annotation:	IMF: Dataset: World Economic Outlook April 2022, General government gross debt, national currency, billions [GGXWDG] Implied PPP conversion rate, national currency per current international dollar [PPPEX] URL: https://www.imf.org/en/Publi… extracted June 21st, 2022 World Bank: Dataset: World Development Indicators, Population ages 0-14, total [SP.POP.0014.TO] URL: https://databank.worldbank.o… extracted July 1st, 2022
Source 2:	IMF World Economic Outlook, Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR
Annotation:	IMF: Dataset: World Economic Outlook April 2022, General government gross debt, national currency, billions [GGXWDG] Implied PPP conversion rate, national currency per current international dollar [PPPEX] URL: https://www.imf.org/en/Publi… extracted June 21st, 2022 Eurostat: Dataset: Population on 1 January by broad age group and sex [demo_pjanbroad] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extracted June 21st, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	370.18875
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9
Annotat.:	Indicator calculated by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Top group

Score

Debt per Child

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Bulgaria

9.0

42.50

Upper middle group

Estonia

8.9

46.23

Mexico

8.9

46.28

Chile

8.7

52.31

Turkey

8.4

64.27

Latvia

7.6

98.94

Romania

7.3

110.56

Israel

7.2

113.82

Czechia

7.2

114.16

New Zealand

7.1

118.37

Lithuania

7.0

121.92

Sweden

7.0

125.06

Slovakia

6.7

134.66

Poland

6.7

135.57

Denmark

6.4

146.86

Lower middle group

Australia

5.8

174.38

Croatia

5.5

186.90

South Korea

5.2

196.83

Hungary

5.2

199.12

Norway

5.1

200.19

Luxembourg

5.0

207.10

Malta

4.9

211.76

Slovenia

4.7

218.39

Switzerland

4.7

220.00

Netherlands

4.4

229.73

Finland

4.4

230.43

Iceland

4.2

239.78

3.4

273.42

Bottom group

Cyprus

2.9

291.70

Germany

2.8

297.15

Ireland

2.4

312.98

France

2.3

315.91

Austria

1.6

345.21

Spain

1.5

348.11

Portugal

1.5

350.53

Belgium

1.0

369.20

Canada

1.0

376.90

Greece

1.0

453.39

USA

1.0

503.73

Italy

1.0

540.42

Japan

1.0

955.87