Link Securities | The Bank of Spain (BdE) published on Monday that Spanish public debt increased by €46.143 billion in 2024, to €1,621,515 billion, which is its highest level for an annual close. In terms of Spain’s GDP, public debt stood at 101.8% at the end of 2024, 3.3 percentage points less than in 2023. The improvement in the public debt ratio has a lot to do with the upward…
For 2025, the Treasury plans to issue €60.000 million of net debt, which is 9% more than the €55.000 million in 2024. The increase, as assured by the Minister of Economy, Carlos Cuerpo, after the Council of Ministers, aims to “provide sufficient flexibility to respond to the disaster of the DANA” and to assist “for as long as necessary to those affected.”In gross terms, this year the Treasury will need…
According to data from the Bank of Spain (BdE), the total debt of the Spanish Public Administrations closed October at €1,628,243 million, €7,873 million less than in September. In relation to October 2023, the debt increased by €54,954 million. The majority of the debt was concentrated in the State, with €1,480,032 million, €10,067 million less than a month earlier. Meanwhile, the debt of the Autonomous Communities closed October at €334,210…
The Bank of Spain (BdE) raised its growth forecast for this year by five tenths to 2.8% yesterday, while calling for transparent and prompt fiscal consolidation. It also announced that the total public debt of Spain’s administrations decreased by €8.931 billion in July compared to June (-0.5%), reaching €1.616 trillion, the second-highest figure in historical series. This is slightly less than 108% of GDP. The decrease in public debt in…
The Bank of Spain (BdE) reported on Friday that the debt of all public administrations in Spain rose in 1Q2024 to 109% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 1.3 percentage points above the close of 2023, while the amount of Spanish public debt set a new record at €1.613 trillion, with record indebtedness of the State and the autonomous regions. The Bank of Spain, which thus confirmed the 1Q2024…
According to data from the Bank of Spain (BdE), Spanish public debt rose in 1Q2024 to 109% of GDP, 1.3 percentage points higher than at the end of 2023, while it set an all-time high at €1,613,063 million, 5.1% higher than in the same quarter of the previous year. Data published on Friday by the Spanish Central Bank (BdE) show that at the end of 1Q2024, the State’s debt amounted…
The debt of public administrations as a whole rose by €19,549 million in February compared with the previous month (+1.2%), reaching €1,602,662 million, a new record high, according to data published yesterday, Monday, by the Bank of Spain. This rise means that the debt of public administrations exceeds the barrier of €1.6 trillion for the first time in history, above the record reached in January of €1.583 trillion. In the…
Miguel Navascués| In 2023 the net debt issuance of the Kingdom of Spain was €72,878 m, 5% of GDP 2022. GDP grew by 2.5% in 2023 but with inflation it increases nominally more (€115,000 m) and the ratio falls to 109% of GDP. In reality, however, the debt issued is much higher, at 137% of GDP. Because the ‘official’ debt is 109.8% of GDP. But this figure is arrived at…
Eurostat has released data on public debt and deficit at the end of the third quarter of the previous year for the euro area and the EU-27. And in both statistics, the Spanish economy has not fared very well in relation to its European neighbours: Spain ranks fourth among European countries with the highest debt-to-GDP ratio (at the end of the third quarter of last year). This is part of…
The Bank of Spain (BdE) reported yesterday that the debt of Spanish public administrations as a whole increased by 0.2% in November compared to October, to €1.58 trillion. In year-on-year terms, debt increased by 4.6% in November, equivalent to €68.751 billion. In November, central government debt amounted to €1.41 trillion, an increase in the month of 0.35%. In addition, the debt of the autonomous communities grew by 0.26% to €324,456…