Across 6 countries in North America, the highest value is in United States (100.2 %) and the lowest in Mexico (41.3 %).
The median country is at 55.3 %: half are above, half below.
Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a…
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uses the latest year for which at least half of the countries have a value; countries
without a value that year are not listed.
