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Euro area government debt-to-GDP ratio

Source: R/ecb_government_debt.R
ecb_government_debt.Rd

Returns the annual general government consolidated gross debt as a percentage of GDP for the euro area, from the ECB's government finance statistics dataset (GFS).

Usage

ecb_government_debt(from = NULL, to = NULL, cache = TRUE)

Arguments

from

Optional start date (year, e.g. "2000").

to

Optional end date.

cache

Logical. Use cached data if available (default TRUE).

Value

A data frame with columns:

date

Date. 1 January of each year.

value

Numeric. Government debt as a percentage of GDP.

See also

Other macro: ecb_gdp(), ecb_unemployment()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(readecb.cache_dir = tempdir())
try({
  ecb_government_debt(from = "2000")
})
#> ℹ Fetching government debt-to-GDP ratio
#> ✔ Fetching government debt-to-GDP ratio [320ms]
#> 
#>          date   value
#> 1  2000-01-01 69.2487
#> 2  2001-01-01 68.1974
#> 3  2002-01-01 68.0903
#> 4  2003-01-01 69.3323
#> 5  2004-01-01 69.6007
#> 6  2005-01-01 70.1783
#> 7  2006-01-01 68.1089
#> 8  2007-01-01 65.7387
#> 9  2008-01-01 69.3570
#> 10 2009-01-01 79.7681
#> 11 2010-01-01 85.1890
#> 12 2011-01-01 86.9837
#> 13 2012-01-01 90.4663
#> 14 2013-01-01 92.4443
#> 15 2014-01-01 92.6581
#> 16 2015-01-01 90.7027
#> 17 2016-01-01 89.6189
#> 18 2017-01-01 87.1238
#> 19 2018-01-01 85.1498
#> 20 2019-01-01 83.1637
#> 21 2020-01-01 95.9503
#> 22 2021-01-01 93.2209
#> 23 2022-01-01 88.7501
#> 24 2023-01-01 86.2977
#> 25 2024-01-01 86.1242
#> 26 2025-01-01 87.2649
options(op)
# }