debt-to-gdp

Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio of 25 per cent is less than half that of the seven biggest industrial countries combined.

Nomura estimates that if China's government were to assume responsibility for all this debt, the country's debt-to-GDP ratio could top 135%.

Although private debt had been rising, the country's overall debt-to-GDP ratio had not ballooned, because the Greek economy was growing.

Even with a strong economic recovery, the ratio of government debt to GDP would double to 80 per cent in the next 10 years.

Although this will increase China's debt-to-GDP ratio significantly, the total would still be low by international standards.

And even if costs were ten times that of Kobe, they would add only about 7 percentage points to Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio.

If the current 335% ratio of household, business and government debt-to-GDP sounds bad now, just imagine if GDP were to contract.

But even though Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio is far higher than those of America and much of Europe, there is no sign yet of imminent collapse.

Perhaps they should review the article in the adjacent column on China's real debt to GDP they are just as bad as everyone else.

The Swiss have both a fiscal and a current-account surplus, a low inflation rate and a relatively low debt-to-GDP ratio.

Portugal ran deficits, but its debt-to-GDP ratio was only a little higher than that of France and Germany.

Belgium has sported a government debt-to-GDP ratio of more than 100 per cent for the best part of two decades.

The average ratio of public debt to GDP in big, rich economies has jumped from below 80% to nearly 100% in two years.

All the main Asian emerging economies apart from India have relatively low ratios of public debt to GDP.

Belgium's national debt is nearly equal to its annual gross domestic product, which ranks around 10th in the world in debt-to-GDP ratio.

In the U. S. alone, the CBO estimates that the public debt-to-GDP ratio will rise from 40% to 80%, or about $9 trillion.

Such steps could arrest the steady increase of debt-to-GDP ratios, even after addressing those looming contingent liabilities.

At the end of the Napoleonic wars, the UK had a ratio of public debt to GDP of 270 per cent.

By 1989 the ratio of debt to GDP was falling and output was growing at 4 per cent a year.

These policies have generated double-digit deficits and a debt-to-GDP ratio well over 100%.

One example not to follow is Japan, which has suffered a long period of stagnation accompanied by ever-rising government-debt-to-GDP ratios.

The IMF argues that despite historically high debt-to- GDP ratios , many countries still have room for fiscal manoeuvre .

The lowest gross-debt-to-GDP figure for any of the Group of Seven developed economies is Canada's 79%.

To bring ratios of debt to GDP back to 60%, a number widely seen as prudent prior to the crisis, would take twice as much effort.

The deteriorating state of government finances and their rising debt-to-GDP ratios mean there are lots of these bonds to buy.

Previous run-ups in the debt-to-GDP ratio were associated with wars and fell with modest spending restraint and economic growth.

As the economy contracts, and as debt rises, the debt to GDP ratio for the nation starts to increase at breakneck speed.

Given its relatively low debt-to-GDP ratio and exceptionally high foreign reserves, the country has a comfortable cushion.

In other words, the Greek debt-to-GDP ratio would not peak at 172 per cent, as one forecast suggested, but at 148 per cent.

Ireland's story is amazing: in just five years it will suffer a 93 percentage point jump in the ratio of its net public debt to GDP.

On average emerging-market governments now have much lower debt-to-GDP ratios than their developed peers.

Double-digit growth has helped China keep a lid on its debt-to-GDP ratio over the past decade.

Australia, like China, has a very low ratio of gross central government debt to GDP.

As long as it persists, the debt-to-GDP ratio will get steadily worse.

Mr Shih's estimate (not counting the untapped credit lines) would add another 34 percentage points to China's ratio of public debt to GDP.

By contrast, Japan spent trillions on Keynesian "stimulus" schemes after 1991, doubling the ratio of national debt to GDP.

When budget experts take our debt's temperature, the statistic they rely on is the debt to GDP ratio.

A first indicator against which to make that judgment is the ratio of gross public debt to GDP.

Before the crisis, Ireland's ratio of public debt to GDP was 40 percentage points less than Germany's.

Spain and Ireland, which both had surpluses and low debt to GDP ratios before the crisis, showed the fallacy in this logic.

Yet Ireland and Spain had a surplus and low debt-to-GDP ratios before the crisis.

Italy's gross debt-to-GDP ratio is large, at 120%, and the country has a chronic growth problem, but it is not insolvent.

On this basis Greece ends up with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 165% by 2015.

Strong economic growth provides help in reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio over time.

This would prolong the country's recession and still leave it with a public debt-to-GDP ratio of 148 per cent by 2016.

There is no magic level of debt to GDP that will automatically trigger a fiscal crisis.

Italy has a more troubling debt to GDP ratio of 120%, but has a near-balanced budget.

That would stabilise the US debt to GDP ratio to about 65 per cent and resolve the deficit overhang.

Deficit cutting should start now, not later, to achieve manageable debt-to-GDP ratios before 2015.

When Japan's bubble economy imploded in the early 1990s, the government net debt to GDP ratio was a negligible 15 per cent.

Indonesia's debt-to-GDP ratio in recent years has declined steadily because of increasingly robust GDP growth and sound fiscal stewardship.

The country, which approved an austerity programme last week, currently has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 120%.

This is the trouble with austerity measures, and is why Greece's debt-to-GDP has soared, not declined, over the past 18 months.

A moribund economy simply cannot sustain a debt-to-GDP ratio of more than 200%.

As a result, the debt-to-GDP ratio never fell below 100 per cent and is now about 120.

On the latter assumption, absent a restructuring, Greece's debt to GDP ratio could reach more than 400 per cent by 2050.

In the U. S. , the ratio of mortgage debt to GDP rose to 103% in 2007.

That amounts to about 145% of Virginia's 2009 economic output, similar to the debt-to-GDP ratio of Greece.

Germany's debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to be 80% this year, up from 65% in 2008.

It pushes the debt-to-GDP ratio inexorably higher.

Under the current trend, the United States will show a debt-to-GDP ratio above 100% by 2012.

France's debt to GDP ratio is due to rise above 87 per cent of GDP next year.

There were even more startling rises in Iceland and Ireland, where debt-to-GDP ratios reached 1, 200% and 700% respectively.

If these loans are taken into account, he says, China's debt-to-GDP ratio is much higher than the official level of roughly 20 per cent.

The treaty fixed the permitted ratio of government debt-to-GDP at 60 percent.

Investor attention is also turning towards Belgium, which has the third highest public debt to GDP ratio in the eurozone.

Take a nation with 100 per cent debt to GDP but 50 per cent domestically funded.

Governments have the power to tax and to print money, and have recovered from high debt-to-GDP ratios in the past.

Doing that, Shih estimates, would make China's debt-to-GDP ratio of around 20% in 2009, closer to 71%.

The IMF thinks that in all three the ratio of net debt to GDP will be lower in 2016 than today.

Its debt-to-GDP ratio was a modest 42% in 2010, against 160% in Greece today.

It also means the gross debt-to-GDP ratio, already the highest in the rich world at 190%, will continue to rise.

In fact, the increase in the private debt to GDP ratio steepened starting in 1996, and the savings rate has been falling since 1992.

The ratio of debt to GDP is 66% and has been falling despite a public-sector deficit of about 8%.

Gross government debt to GDP will reach 200 pct in the near term .

So servicing a ratio of net public debt to GDP as high as 100 per cent would cost 2 per cent of GDP.

In any case, even a debt-to-GDP ratio of 120 percent could still be too high.

Debt-to-GDP ratios in the G7 will have ballooned to more than 400%.

Meanwhile, inside the US the ratio of household debt to GDP rose from 66 per cent in 1997 to 100 per cent a decade later.

Even by their own admission, the Greece's debt to GDP will be 120% in 2020. Really?

To lower the debt-to-GDP ratio to 60 per cent in 20 years would require an additional 1. 5 percentage points in the primary balance.

The deal makes a smaller dent in Greece's borrowings; the country will still have a 120% debt-to-GDP ratio in 2020.

A 10% fall in the real now lightens its debt burden, lowering the ratio of net debt to GDP by 1. 3 percentage points.

Between 2007 and 2009, the debt-to-GDP ratio of rich countries is projected to rise by 14. 5 percentage points.

The ratio of general government debt to GDP soared from just 25 per cent in 2007 to 95 per cent in 2010.

Net debt to GDP, for example, in Ireland is projected to be about 50 per cent next year, half the level of Greece.

The Euro zone budget deficit to GDP is 6. 7% and debt to GDP is 88% whilst the US deficit is 10. 7% and debt 92%.

India also has the highest ratio of public debt to GDP, at 80% (see chart 3).

The debt-to-GDP ratio could reach 200% in 2013, up from 115% in 2009.

the country will still have a 120% debt-to-GDP ratio in 2020.

The euro zone's ratio of gross debt to GDP declined slowly but steadily before the crisis, from 73. 7% in 1996 to 68. 5% in 2006.

Over the past ten years, Japan has doubled its debt-to-GDP ratio, to 180%, more than twice the average of other developed countries.

Last year the fiscal budget was in surplus, and the cumulative level of debt-to-GDP is modest.

For example, Spain has a debt to GDP ratio that is just over 60%, well within anyone's conception of manageable.

Growth registered at almost 9% last year, yet the government debt-to-GDP ratio still stood around a modest 20% as of December 31.

Dynamics concerning ratio of China's debt to GDP based on macro-economical variables