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British gilts are the most undervalued financial asset on the planet. You would hardly know it from our compulsion to talk the country down but the UK is today one of the least indebted states in the ...

Globally, government debt has increased since the 2019 pandemic. Developed countries like the US, France, and the UK have debt levels that exceed 100 percent of their GDP.

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Most often, the D/GDP ratio is expressed as a percentage. If a country’s D/GDP ratio is 100%, for instance, that would mean its annual economic output is approximately equal to its public debt.

Debt-champion Japan is over 180 percent, Greece is just under 150 percent, with Italy in third place at 109 percent. The U.S. is in eleventh place (out of 34) with debt equal to 61 percent of GDP.

The FTSE Debt Capacity World Government Bond Index captures relative differences in sovereign debt/GDP ratios and ...

A jump in Britain's debt-to-GDP ratio in April to its highest since 1963 largely reflects the big fall in output that the coronavirus is expected to have caused, rather than last month's record ...