Government consolidated gross debt (quarterly)
Quarterly general government consolidated gross debt as a percentage of GDP, for EU member states, EFTA countries, EU candidates and EU/euro-area aggregates. Eurostat dataset gov_10q_ggdebt ('Quarterly government debt').
Source: Eurostat3,462 rowsUpdated: 9/21/2026
government-debtfiscalmacroeurope
Quality
100
Attribution
Eurostat
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Observation period from the Eurostat 'time' dimension. Annual observations (YYYY) are stored as January 1; monthly observations (YYYY-MM) as the first of the month; quarterly observations (YYYY-QN) as the first month of the quarter. |
| series_id | string | Series key: the Eurostat dimension codes (freq, unit, na_item/coicop/s_adj/age/sex/... and geo) joined with dots, in the dataset's dimension order — e.g. 'A.CP_MEUR.B1GQ.DE'. |
| series_label | string | Human-readable series description: the Eurostat-published dimension labels for the series_id codes, joined with commas. |
| value | float | Observed value. Units follow the dataset's unit dimension (e.g. 'Current prices, million euro', 'Percentage of population in the labour force', 'Annual rate of change', 'Percentage of gross domestic product (GDP)'). Missing observations are null. |
Sample rows
| date | series_id | series_label | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-01-01 | Q.GD.S13.PC_GDP.AT | Quarterly, Government consolidated gross debt, General government, Percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), Austria | 70.8 |
| 2000-04-01 | Q.GD.S13.PC_GDP.AT | Quarterly, Government consolidated gross debt, General government, Percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), Austria | 71.4 |
| 2000-07-01 | Q.GD.S13.PC_GDP.AT | Quarterly, Government consolidated gross debt, General government, Percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), Austria | 72 |
| 2000-10-01 | Q.GD.S13.PC_GDP.AT | Quarterly, Government consolidated gross debt, General government, Percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), Austria | 66.6 |
| 2001-01-01 | Q.GD.S13.PC_GDP.AT | Quarterly, Government consolidated gross debt, General government, Percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), Austria | 70.4 |
Use with an LLM
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
cURL
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_gov_debt_quarterly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_gov_debt_quarterly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_gov_debt_quarterly
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.