Economic Policies: Budgets

QoG code: sgi_ecbg

The Budget subpillar of the Economic Policies category evaluates the fiscal sustainability of budgetary policies, examining whether the budget is consolidated and the national debt is manageable. It assesses key indicators, including Debt to GDP, Primary Balance, Gross Interest Payments, Budget Consolidation, Debt per Child, and External Debt to GDP, to determine the long-term viability of fiscal policies.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-10-09
Last updated by source
2024-12-17

Categories

Public Economy
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section 41
Standard cross-section 41
Standard time-series 41
OECD cross-section 30
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2013-2021

Country coverage

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  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus (1975-)
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea, South
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Year coverage

This variable has information from 2013 to 2021.