<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article or section may contain misleading parts . Please help clarify this article according to any suggestions provided on the talk page . (October 2015) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article or section may contain misleading parts . Please help clarify this article according to any suggestions provided on the talk page . (October 2015) </Td> </Tr> <P> Public debt is the total of all borrowing of a government, minus repayments denominated in a country's home currency . CIA's World Factbook lists only the percentages of GDP; the total debt and per capita amounts have been calculated in the table below using the GDP (PPP) and population figures of the same report . </P> <P> A debt to GDP ratio is one of the most accepted ways of assessing the significance of a nation's debt . For example, one of the criteria of admission to the European Union's euro currency is that an applicant country's debt should not exceed 60% of that country's GDP . </P>

All the money borrowed by the federal government over the years and still outstanding is known as