High income OECD countries Compared by Economy > Financial sector > Assets > Claims on governments and other public entities > Current LCU

DEFINITION: Claims on governments and other public entities (IFS line 32an + 32b + 32bx + 32c) usually comprise direct credit for specific purposes such as financing of the government budget deficit or loans to state enterprises, advances against future credit authorisations, and purchases of treasury bills and bonds, net of deposits by the public sector. Public sector deposits with the banking system also include sinking funds for the service of debt and temporary deposits of government revenues. Data are in current local currency.".

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Italy	677.82 trillion	1998
2	Japan	342.55 trillion	2008
3	Spain	18.28 trillion	1998
4	Belgium	6.08 trillion	1997
5	France	1.59 trillion	1997
6	United States	1.19 trillion	2008
7	Germany	1.02 trillion	1998
8	Portugal	996.05 billion	1998
9	Austria	725.09 billion	1997
10	Canada	296.5 billion	2008
11	United Kingdom	214.87 billion	2009
12	Sweden	197.82 billion	2008
13	Czech Republic	192.53 billion	2008
14	Netherlands	143.19 billion	1997
15	Poland	131.36 billion	2008
16	Switzerland	87.04 billion	2009
17	Greece	58.9 billion	2000
18	Australia	42.75 billion	2009
19	Finland	25.19 billion	1998
20	New Zealand	6.99 billion	2009
21	Slovakia	6.1 billion	2008
22	Ireland	2.8 billion	1998
23	Slovenia	2.25 billion	2006
24	Estonia	-267,000,000	2008
25	Israel	-49,609,221,570	2009
26	Luxembourg	-58,420,000,000	1997
27	Norway	-77,667,761,639.83	2003
28	Denmark	-118,591,000,000	2008
29	Iceland	-200,520,848,982	2007
30	Chile	-2,934,462,843,000	2008

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