EU quarterly fiscal-balance panel (Eurostat)

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Quarterly general-government fiscal-balance panel from Eurostat's official keyless dissemination API: net lending(+)/net borrowing(-) as a percentage of GDP (seasonally and calendar adjusted) per European country and quarter from 1995-Q1, with deficit/surplus flags, the -3%-of-GDP Excessive Deficit Procedure breach flag, quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year changes in percentage points, the gap versus the EA21 aggregate, within-quarter balance ranks and deterministic row hashes. Eurostat observation flags (provisional/break-in-series) kept verbatim; missing cells are honestly absent, never imputed, and derived metrics never bridge gaps. Who joins this: sovereign-risk and fiscal-monitor models join quarterly deficit momentum on (geo, quarter); rates and FX desks read the EDP-breach flag alongside debt trajectories; expansion planners track fiscal stance across markets. Eurostat dataset gov_10q_ggnfa ('Quarterly non-financial accounts for general government'). Complements the catalog's quarterly debt-stock panel (eu_debt_signals) with the deficit/surplus flow at the same frequency.

Source: Eurostat Quarterly Fiscal-Balance Intelligence
Rows: 3,125
Columns: 14
Source cadence: Quarterly
Last refreshed: Oct 9, 2026
Theme: economy

Column	Type	Description
quarter	string	Observation quarter as YYYY-QN (1995-Q1 -> latest published); panel join key with geo. (unit: quarter)
quarter_start	date	First day of the observation quarter. (unit: date)
geo	string	Eurostat country/aggregate code (e.g. DE, FR, EU27_2020, EA21). The United Kingdom, Kosovo and the legacy euro-area aggregates (EA/EA12/EA19/EA20) are excluded per the catalog's Eurostat geo rule. (unit: string)
geo_label	string	English label for geo as published by Eurostat. (unit: string)
fiscal_balance	float	General-government net lending(+)/net borrowing(-) as a percentage of GDP, seasonally and calendar adjusted. Eurostat gov_10q_ggnfa, na_item=B9, sector=S13, unit=PC_GDP, s_adj=SCA. Negative prints are deficits. (unit: percent of GDP)
fiscal_balance_flag	string	Eurostat observation flag for fiscal_balance as published ('p' provisional, 'b' break in time series, ...); empty when unflagged. (unit: string)
deficit_flag	integer	1 when fiscal_balance is negative (a deficit), else 0. (unit: boolean)
edp_breach_flag	integer	1 when fiscal_balance is strictly below -3.0% of GDP (the Excessive Deficit Procedure reference value), else 0. (unit: boolean)
surplus_flag	integer	1 when fiscal_balance is positive (a surplus), else 0. (unit: boolean)
qoq_change_pp	float	Quarter-on-quarter change of fiscal_balance in percentage points (exact prior quarter); null for a geo's first published quarter or when the prior quarter is missing (never bridges gaps). (unit: percentage points)
yoy_change_pp	float	Year-on-year change of fiscal_balance in percentage points (exact same quarter of the prior year); null when that quarter is missing (never bridges gaps). (unit: percentage points)
ea21_gap	float	fiscal_balance minus the EA21 aggregate print for the same quarter, in percentage points. Null for EA21 itself and where either side is missing. (unit: percentage points)
balance_rank	integer	Within-quarter rank of fiscal_balance across kept geos (1 = largest surplus; ties share a rank). (unit: rank)
row_hash	string	Deterministic 16-hex sha256 of quarter + geo + the raw fiscal-balance value and flag (idempotency key). (unit: string)

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

quarter	quarter_start	geo	geo_label	fiscal_balance	fiscal_balance_flag	deficit_flag	qoq_change_pp	yoy_change_pp	ea21_gap	balance_rank	row_hash
2001-Q1	2001-01-01	AT	Austria	-0.4	—	1	—	—	—	9	443531c9d20d03c8
2001-Q2	2001-04-01	AT	Austria	-0.7	—	1	-0.3	—	—	10	66d6c9215d211a99
2001-Q3	2001-07-01	AT	Austria	-0.5	—	1	0.2	—	—	8	7c3a9a4d74421aef
2001-Q4	2001-10-01	AT	Austria	-1.3	—	1	-0.8	—	—	9	72a8c696b068e844
2002-Q1	2002-01-01	AT	Austria	-1.3	—	1	0	-0.9	1.5	8	01444686ad792e75
2002-Q2	2002-04-01	AT	Austria	-1.5	—	1	-0.2	-0.8	1.2	10	4d6729a5d0ac7637
2002-Q3	2002-07-01	AT	Austria	-0.8	—	1	0.7	-0.3	1.9	10	5799c79649713e72
2002-Q4	2002-10-01	AT	Austria	-2.1	—	1	-1.3	-0.8	0.7	9	8fb6a143b62e21e3
2003-Q1	2003-01-01	AT	Austria	-1.9	—	1	0.2	-0.6	1.4	10	3ef02febb300b0a4
2003-Q2	2003-04-01	AT	Austria	-1.1	—	1	0.8	0.4	1.5	11	b9fc943bd2d0b246

Profiled Oct 9, 2026 from snapshot 20261009T122956Z-eb3bea2ab870

Measured

Completeness: 98.7%
Rows: 3,125
Columns: 14
Columns with gaps: 3

Rows per yearquarter_start · 1995–2026 · 32 years

19952026

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
quartervarchar	0%	141	—	2002-Q129 2002-Q229 2002-Q329
quarter_startdate	0%	134	Jan 1, 1995 → Jan 1, 2026	—
geovarchar	0%	32	—	FR125 RO125 SE125
geo_labelvarchar	0%	28	—	France125 Romania125 Sweden125
fiscal_balancedouble	0%	306	-53.6 → 57.5median -2.3	62 outside 1st–99th percentile
fiscal_balance_flagvarchar	0%	3	—	3,061 p63 b1
deficit_flagbigint	0%	2	0 → 1median 1
edp_breach_flagbigint	0%	2	0 → 1median 0
surplus_flagbigint	0%	2	0 → 1median 0
qoq_change_ppdouble	0.93%	449	-54.4 → 55.9median 0.1	62 outside 1st–99th percentile
yoy_change_ppdouble	3.7%	551	-59 → 60.7median 0.2	62 outside 1st–99th percentile
ea21_gapdouble	13.1%	471	-49.9 → 59.2median 0.5	54 outside 1st–99th percentile
balance_rankbigint	0%	27	1 → 29median 14
row_hashvarchar	0%	3,176	—	0076de99322823d61 0094ec87306df6fe1 009ad09e5bb970d61

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat_fiscal_balance_intel/eu_quarterly_fiscal_balance_panel" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

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import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat_fiscal_balance_intel/eu_quarterly_fiscal_balance_panel").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_fiscal_balance_intel/eu_quarterly_fiscal_balance_panel

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

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Eurostat Quarterly Fiscal-Balance Intelligence. (2026). EU quarterly fiscal-balance panel (Eurostat) [Data set, snapshot 20261009T122956Z-eb3bea2ab870, sha256 eb3bea2ab870]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-09, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/eurostat_fiscal_balance_intel/eu_quarterly_fiscal_balance_panel?snapshot=20261009T122956Z-eb3bea2ab870

BibTeX

@misc{dz_eurostat_fiscal_balance_intel_eu_quarter_eb3bea2a,
  title        = {{EU quarterly fiscal-balance panel (Eurostat)}},
  author       = {{Eurostat Quarterly Fiscal-Balance Intelligence}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/eurostat_fiscal_balance_intel/eu_quarterly_fiscal_balance_panel?snapshot=20261009T122956Z-eb3bea2ab870}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261009T122956Z-eb3bea2ab870, sha256 eb3bea2ab87061dd09b1ec1b546eacc9fa615014d38972b9a2bf998be4cf9e8a; accessed 2026-10-09}
}

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