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How high is public debt per child under 15 years?

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Definition:	General government gross debt per child < 15 years, current prices, purchasing power parity adjusted
Year:	2019
Unit:	PPP, thsd. current int. USD
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	IMF World Economic Outlook, World Bank, World Development Indicators
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, NZL, USA
Annotation:	IMF: Dataset: World Economic Outlook October 2019, General government gross debt, national currency, billions URL: https://www.imf.org/external… extracted May 22nd, 2020 Dataset: World Economic Outlook October 2019, Implied PPP conversion rate, national currency per current international dollar World Bank: Dataset: World Development Indicators, Population ages 0-14, total [SP.POP.0014.TO] URL: https://databank.worldbank.o… extracted July 6th, 2020
Source 2:	IMF World Economic Outlook, Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR
Annotation:	IMF: Dataset: World Economic Outlook October 2019, General government gross debt, national currency, billions URL: https://www.imf.org/external… extracted May 22nd, 2020 Dataset: World Economic Outlook October 2019, Implied PPP conversion rate, national currency per current international dollar Eurostat: Dataset: Population on 1 January by broad age group and sex [demo_pjanbroad] URL: https://appsso.eurostat.ec.e… extracted May 21st, 2020

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	329.91875
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9
Annotat.:	Indicator calculated by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Top group

Score

Debt per Child

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Estonia

9.5

17.85

Bulgaria

9.1

32.63

Turkey

9.0

36.81

Chile

9.0

37.45

Upper middle group

Mexico

8.8

42.36

New Zealand

8.3

63.45

Romania

8.2

67.24

Latvia

8.0

72.16

Lithuania

7.9

77.10

Czechia

7.9

77.14

Israel

7.6

86.79

Iceland

7.3

99.09

Poland

7.1

105.36

Denmark

7.1

107.78

Slovakia

6.9

112.55

Sweden

6.9

114.41

Australia

6.8

116.59

Croatia

6.3

136.14

South Korea

6.1

141.28

Malta

6.1

144.10

Luxembourg

6.1

144.63

Lower middle group

Hungary

5.7

157.77

Slovenia

5.4

170.07

Switzerland

5.4

170.18

Norway

5.2

175.57

Finland

5.2

176.95

Netherlands

5.1

180.68

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3.9

224.32

Germany

3.7

230.57

Cyprus

3.3

246.78

Ireland

3.2

249.69

France

3.1

252.46

Bottom group

Austria

2.8

265.05

Spain

2.6

270.14

Canada

2.4

279.14

Portugal

2.1

288.67

Belgium

1.9

295.59

Greece

1.0

372.64

USA

1.0

374.03

Italy

1.0

408.43

Japan

1.0

860.53

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