French national debt under presidents Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron: a look at the numbers
French national debt has grown steadily over the last 30 years. It is the sum of all public deficits accumulated since the mid-1970s. To compare the amount of national debt to the government’s financing capacity, it is expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) – debt-to-GDP ratio – which indicates how many years of […]
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