Government finance
Government finance statistics form an important part of the integrated system of sectoral non-financial and financial accounts for the euro area.
To carry out the analysis required for monetary policy, the ECB and the ESCB need comprehensive and reliable government finance statistics based on the ESA 2010.
Fiscal dashboard
Explore government finance data interactively
Navigate through the latest data with maps and charts for the euro area and the other EU countries.
Statistical Data Warehouse
Government finance - data for the euro area, the EU and individual EU Member States.
Report sheets
Presented in the format of the monthly Statistics Bulletin tables, but including latest government finance data:
- Revenue, expenditure and deficit/surplus
- Debt
- Change in debt
- Monthly debt securities
- Fiscal developments in euro area countries
Economic Bulletin
Reports
- Monthly issuance of debt securities and debt service
- Government expenditure broken down by function (COFOG)
Economic concepts
Related information
- Release calendar
- CSV mapping file between the ESA 95 (discontinued) and the ESA 2010 series keys for government finance
- Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users1, a useful source of reference for national compilers and users of debt statistics of the general government and, more broadly, the public sector
- ECB GFS Guide, January 2019
- ESA 2010
- IMF GFS Manual
1) Prepared under the joint responsibility of nine organisations through the mechanism of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics, which includes the ECB.
Legal basis
The legal basis for collecting annual government finance statistics is laid down in Guideline ECB/2013/23.