Table 1.

Central Government Debt (% of Gross Domestic Product) in Six European Countries, 1980–2010.

	1980	1990	2000	2010
Germany	13.0	19.7	38.4	44.4
Greece	—	97.6a	108.9	147.8
Italy	52.7	92.8	103.6	109.0
Portugal	29.2	51.7	52.1	88.0
Spain	14.3	36.5	49.9	51.7
Sweden	38.2	39.6	56.9	33.8

Source: OECD Stat Extracts and World Economic Outlook Database of the International Monetary Fund, accessed January 3, 2013.

^aData for 1993.