Government debt, million EUR (annual)

Annual general government consolidated gross debt at face value in million euro, for EU member states and EU/euro-area aggregates. Eurostat dataset gov_10dd_edpt1 ('Government deficit/surplus, debt and associated data' - the Excessive Deficit Procedure notification table, ESA 2010), filtered to freq=A, sector=S13 (general government), unit=MIO_EUR ('Million euro') and na_item=GD ('Government consolidated gross debt'). Each row is one (year, country): the absolute debt stock in euros - the level counterpart of the % of GDP series in 'gov-debt-quarterly' and of the instrument breakdown in 'gov-debt-by-instrument-annual'. Method: Eurostat compiles the EDP notifications transmitted by the member states each April and October; debt is consolidated (intra-government liabilities are netted out) and recorded at face value, not market value; all 31 published geos are EU27 members or EU/euro-area aggregates, so the connector's commercial-use geo rule drops nothing here. Units: million euro, current prices; values are >= 0. Caveats: absolute levels reflect both fiscal stance and economic size - join with GDP or population for ratio or per-capita views; the latest year is provisional and revised; the EU27_2020, EA21, EA20 and EA19 aggregates are included as published. Coverage: ~31 geographic units, 1995 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the table with each EDP notification (April/October). Sample use: join with 'gdp-annual' to recompute the debt-to-GDP ratio from levels.