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Last updated: June 27, 2013 9:02 am
Explore the levels of public debt across advanced and emerging economies on a range of different measures, including as a percentage of GDP, dollars per working-age person and as a share of world debt.
As well as showing a snapshot per country, the data can also be filtered by economic grouping, such as the G20, EU and the G7, plus Brics.
Data courtesy the Brookings Institution
Read more analysis from Eswar Prasad, the data creator, on the FT’s Money Supply blog
Download the technical data notes (PDF)
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