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State of Public Finances in the EU

%GDP

General Government Receipts (a) General Government Expenditure (b) General Government Budget Balance (c)(d) General Government Gross Debt (c)(d)
2007 2008
2007 2008
2005 2006 2007 2008
2005 2006 2007 2008
France
49.6 49.3
52.3 52.7
-2.9 -2.3 -2.7 -3.4
66.4 63.7 63.8 67.4
Germany
43.9 43.7
43.7 43.7
-3.3 -1.6 -0.2 0.0
68.0 67.6 65.0 65.9
Belgium
48.2 48.8
48.4 50.0
-2.7 0.3 -0.2 -1.2
92.1 88.1 84.2 89.8
Cyprus
45.5 43.5
42.2 42.6
-2.4 -1.2 3.4 0.9
69.1 64.6 58.3 48.4
Spain
41.1 37.0
39.2 41.1
1.0 2.0 1.9 -4.1
43.0 39.6 36.1 39.7
Finland
52.5 53.4
47.3 49.0
2.8 4.0 5.2 4.5
41.8 39.3 35.2 34.1
Greece
40.4 40.6
44.4 48.3
-5.2 -2.9 -3.7 -7.7
100 97.1 95.6 99.2
Ireland
36.5 34.9
36.2 42.0
1.7 3.0 0.3 -7.2
27.6 25.0 25.1 44.1
Italy
46.4 46.0
47.9 48.7
-4.3 -3.3 -1.5 -2.7
105.8 106.5 103.5 105.8
Malta
49.6 48.7
52.7 62.8
-2.8 -1.6 -2.8 -7.8
66.4 52.6 89.5 72.5
UK
41.4 42.4
44.1 47.3
-3.4 -2.7 -2.7 -5.0
42.2 43.2 44.2 52.0
USA
34.0 32.3
36.8 38.8
-3.3 -2.2 -2.8 -6.5
61.3 60.8 61.8 70.0
Japan
33.5 34.4
36.0 37.1
-6.7 -1.6 -2.5 -2.7
175.3 172.1 167.1 172.1


(a) Current receipts.r /> (b) Current outlays plus net capital outlays. One-off revenues from the sale of mobile telephone licenses are recorded as negative outlays.
(c) For EU countries, figures reported to the European Commission and checked by Eurostat.
(d) For non-EU countries, the figure presented here are defined according to ESA95 (source: OECD).

Sources: European Commission, Eurostat, OECD.