Treasury.
Revenue, spending and debt. In one coherent picture.
Improving
A favourable change under this indicator’s stated rule, compared with the same period one year earlier.
Lower unemployment or debt/GDP is positive. Higher employment or a smaller trade deficit is also positive.
Green does not always mean the number increased.
Worsening
An unfavourable change under this indicator’s stated rule, compared with the same period one year earlier.
Higher unemployment or debt/GDP is negative. Inflation moving further from the dashboard’s 2% reference is also negative.
Red describes the observed change, not its cause or the country’s overall condition.
Unchanged / context needed
No improvement or deterioration is assigned. The value may be unchanged, its meaning ambiguous, or the comparison unavailable or delayed.
Imports can rise because of demand or investment, so they remain neutral. Missing or delayed comparisons also remain neutral.
Neutral does not mean good, bad, or zero.
General government, annual accrual accounts. Includes central and local government and social security funds. Not monthly state-budget cash execution.
The fiscal picture
Retrieving the fiscal picture…
Cash held in reserve
Actually available for new spending
Not established from the published dataTotal minus the special buffer is not unrestricted cash. The remainder includes debt-service accounts, SDR reserves and holdings of general-government entities. Their commitments, availability and near-term liquidity needs are not separately quantified in this source.
The three figures use the same selected date. Missing buffer observations remain unavailable, never zero. Cash dates are independent of the annual fiscal selector.
How the balance is formed
From revenue to primary balance
Surplus or deficit?
The debt burden
Fiscal history
Click a value for its history and source. Monetary amounts in € million.
What these accounts tell us
One consistent perimeter
Revenue, expenditure and interest cover consolidated general government on the ESA 2010 accrual basis. They are not the central-government cash balance.
Two different questions
The balance measures an annual flow. Debt measures an outstanding stock. Financial transactions and other adjustments also change debt.
Transparent calculations
Primary balance adds interest back to the published overall balance. Every input is preserved in the provenance panel. Small differences may reflect published rounding.
Greece public debt, revenue and spending
Track Greece’s government debt, revenue, expenditure and fiscal balance with annual official statistics and transparent definitions.
Greece OS is an independent application presenting public data, not an official government website. Reporting periods differ by indicator. The interactive dashboards show available observations, definitions and sources.