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Bulgaria’s debt equivalent of one quarter of country’s GDP

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Bulgaria’s debt for 2017 stands at 25.06 bn Leva /12.8 bn euro/, or 25.4 percent of the country’s GDP, preliminary National Statistical Institute (NSI) estimates indicate.

General government has a budget surplus of 920 mln Leva /470 mln euro/, or 0.9 percent of the GDP.

The NSI’s statistical data regarding the public sector are calculated using a harmonized EU methodology. 



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