| Rank | Country | % of GDP | Public debt |
26 | Hungary | 76.00 | 
76% of GDP (2011 est.)
81.3% of GDP (2010 est.)
note: general government gross debt is defined in the Maastricht Treaty as consolidated general government gross debt at nominal value, outstanding at the end of the year in the following categories of government liabilities: currency and deposits, securities other than shares excluding financial derivatives, and government, state government, local government, and social security funds. |
27 | Bahrain | 75.30 |
75.3% of GDP (2011 est.)
60.1% of GDP (2010 est.) |
28 | Israel | 74.00 |
74% of GDP (2011 est.)
74.6% of GDP (2010 est.) |
29 | Austria | 72.10 |
72.1% of GDP (2011 est.)
72.3% of GDP (2010 est.)
note: this is general government gross debt, defined in the Maastricht Treaty as consolidated general government gross debt at nominal value, outstanding at the end of the year; it covers the following categories of government liabilities (as defined in ESA95): currency and deposits (AF.2), securities other than shares excluding financial derivatives (AF.3, excluding AF.34), and loans (AF.4); the general government sector comprises the sub-sectors of central government, state government, local government and social security funds; as a percentage of GDP, the GDP used as a denominator is the gross domestic product in current year prices |
30 | United States | 69.40 |
69.4% of GDP (2011 est.)
62.9% of GDP (2010 est.)
note: data cover only what the United States Treasury denotes as "Debt Held by the Public," which includes all debt instruments issued by the Treasury that are owned by non-US Government entities; the data include Treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data exclude debt issued by individual US states, as well as intra-governmental debt; intra-governmental debt consists of Treasury borrowings from surpluses in the trusts for Federal Social Security, Federal Employees, Hospital Insurance (Medicare and Medicaid), Disability and Unemployment, and several other smaller trusts; if data for intra-government debt were added, "Gross Debt" would increase by about one-third of GDP |
31 | Spain | 68.20 |
68.2% of GDP (2011 est.)
60.1% of GDP (2010 est.) |
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