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Country or Region: Belgium › Change country
Economic Indicator: National Budget and Public Debt › See all Belgium indicators, › See National Budget and Public Debt data for all countries
Detailed Analysis for Year: 2015
Full Dataset: from 1993 to 2014
Dataset updated: 17th March 2015
Data Source: CIA Factbook
National or Regional Currency: Euro
Currency Symbol: EUR

Budget: revenues: $241.9 billion ; expenditures: $258.2 billion (2013 est.)

Public Debt: 102.4% of GDP (2013 est.) ; 99.6% of GDP (2012 est.) ; note: data cover general government debt, and includes debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data include debt issued by subnational entities, as well as intra-governmental debt; intra-governmental debt consists of treasury borrowings from surpluses in the social funds, such as for retirement, medical care, and unemployment; debt instruments for the social funds are not sold at public auctions; general government debt is defined by the Maastricht definition and calculated by the National Bank of Belgium as consolidated gross debt; the debt is defined in European Regulation EC479/2009 concerning the implementation of the protocol on the excessive deficit procedure annexed to the Treaty on European Union (Treaty of Maastricht) of 7 February 1992; the sub-sectors of consolidated gross debt are: federal government, communities and regions, local government, and social security funds