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Values among 30 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	General government gross liabilities as percent of GDP.
Year:	2023
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	IMF World Economic Outlook
Data for:
Annotation:	Dataset: IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2024, General government gross debt [GGXWDG_NGDP] URL: https://www.imf.org/en/Publi… extracted 2024/08/28.

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	151.4625
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Government Debt to GDP

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Estonia

8.8

20.74

Upper middle group

Denmark

8.2

30.38

Lithuania

7.9

35.63

Sweden

7.9

35.86

Switzerland

7.7

38.32

Norway

7.5

41.79

Ireland

7.4

43.32

Latvia

7.4

43.46

Czechia

7.4

44.18

New Zealand

7.3

45.91

Netherlands

7.2

47.17

Australia

7.1

49.38

Poland

7.0

50.83

Slovakia

6.6

57.86

Israel

6.3

61.94

Germany

6.2

64.28

Slovenia

5.9

68.50

Hungary

5.6

73.40

Austria

5.5

75.53

Lower middle group

Finland

5.4

76.71

Portugal

4.1

99.00

4.0

101.08

Belgium

3.8

104.46

Canada

3.6

107.13

Spain

3.6

107.46

France

3.4

110.64

USA

2.7

122.15

Bottom group

Italy

1.8

137.28

Greece

1.0

168.83

Japan

1.0

252.36