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The most common assessment of the value of government debt in one country or another is the ratio of the total amount (in percentage terms) to the value of the national GDP.For example, one of the main requirements for European Union (EU) countries in terms of their financial discipline is that their national debt should not exceed 60% of GDP. Although today (according to the latest Eurostat data, for the 3rd quarter of 2018), this limit is exceeded by half of the EU countries, and by an average of nearly 1.5 times.The EU, as an organization, is also a member of the G20, and together the two groups account for more than 80% of the world economy. Among all of the G20 member countries, Russia has the lowest public debt (as percentage of GDP).We prepared a comparative chart using the estimates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from its latest semi-annual review of the world economy, published in early April. These estimates refer to IMF forecasts in terms of total public debt (general government gross debt") for the countries of the world in 2019:Of the approximately 180 countries included in the IMF review
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