PARIS (Agefi-Dow Jones)–France’s public debt in the Maastricht sense decreased by 20.1 billion euros at the end of the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to the previous quarter, 2,813.1 billion euros, announced Tuesday the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee).
“The rebound in gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021, combined with the deleveraging of this quarter”, thus allowed public debt to fall to 112.9% of GDP at the end of 2021, indicated INSEE. It stood at 116.3% of GDP at the end of the third quarter.
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March 29, 2022 01:31 ET (05:31 GMT)