&NewLine;<p>Portugal recorded&comma; in the third quarter of 2021&comma; a public debt ratio of 130&comma;5 &percnt; of gross domestic product &lpar;GDP&rpar;&period; As a result&comma; Portugal ranks third among the countries with the highest debt in the European Union&period;&nbsp&semi;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Portugal has the 3rd highest public debt in Europe&nbsp&semi;</h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The information was published on Friday by&nbsp&semi;<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/fr/home">Eurostat</a>&comma; which is the statistical office of the EU&period; It reported that&rsquo&semi;at the end of the third quarter 2021&comma; the ratio of public debt to GDP in the eurozone was 97&comma;7 &percnt;&comma; compared with 98&comma;3 &percnt; at the end of the second quarter 2021&period; In the&rsquo&semi;EU&comma; as a whole, the ratio also fell&comma; from 90&comma;9&percnt; to 90&comma;1&percnt; over this&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In the third quarter of last year, Portugal held on to its third place. <a href="https://vivreauportugalconsulting.com/le-portugal-paiera-la-dette-au-fmi/" data-type="post" data-id="3544">public debt</a> the highest in the EU&comma; at 130&comma;5 &percnt; of GDP&comma; just behind Greece &lpar;200&comma;7 &percnt;&rpar; and Italy &lpar;155&comma;3 &percnt;&rpar;&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="blob:https://vivreauportugalconsulting.com/06dfad54-4402-4849-af8c-90c906c1acca" alt="dette portugal&newline;"/><figcaption>Source&colon; Eurostat</figcaption></figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Spain &lpar;121&comma;8 &percnt;&rpar;&comma; France &lpar;116&comma;0 &percnt;&rpar;&comma; Belgium &lpar;111&comma;4 &percnt;&rpar; and Cyprus &lpar;109&comma;6 &percnt;&rpar; are also on the list of member states with the highest public debt-to-GDP ratio at the end of the third quarter of 2021&period; Conversely, the lowest ratios were recorded in Estonia &lpar;19&comma;6&percnt;&rpar;&comma; Bulgaria &lpar;24&comma;2&percnt;&rpar; and Luxembourg &lpar;25&comma;3&percnt;&rpar;&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Eurostat contextualizes&comma; indicating that as long as in the euro zone&comma; the decrease in the ratio of public debt to GDP at the end of the third quarter is due to an increase in GDP&comma; while debt continued to increase due to the financing needs of the policy measures adopted to mitigate the economic and social impact of the pandemic&period;"</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Compared with the third quarter of 2020&comma; the ratio of public debt to GDP increased both in the eurozone &lpar;from 96&comma;6&percnt; to 97&comma;7&percnt;&rpar; and in the&rsquo&semi;EU &lpar;from 89&comma;2&percnt; to 90&comma;1&percnt;&rpar;&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Also in year-on-year comparison&comma; 15 member states recorded an increase in their debt&sol;GDP ratio at the end of the third quarter of 2021 and 12 member states a decrease&period;</p>&NewLine;
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