General government gross debtestimate
€1,775,413,980,594
+€2,287 a second, about €197.6 million a day
Official figure: €1,739,501,000,000 at the end of March 2026 (Eurostat, released 21 July 2026). The clock carries on from there at the average pace of the last 12 months.
- Debt per personper resident
- €37,112
- Added todaysince midnight, your time
- €130,415,521
- Per second12 month average
- €2,287
- Debt to GDPofficial, Q1 2026
- 101.6%
Everything on this card except the official figure is an estimate.
How the clock works
Eurostat publishes the general government gross debt of every EU country once a quarter, about three and a half months after the quarter ends. It covers central, state and local government and the social security funds, measured the way the EU's budget rules define it (Maastricht debt). The clock starts from the latest quarter and adds the average change per second of the last 12 months: €2,287.
Between two quarters the real debt does not move in a straight line, so the live number is an estimate. It usually lands close to the next official figure, not exactly on it.
Sources
- Eurostat, quarterly government debt (gov_10q_ggdebt), Q1 2026, released 21 July 2026. Reused under the European Commission's reuse policy.
- Next Eurostat release expected in October 2026.
- Population: UN DESA, World Population Prospects 2024, turned into a live estimate by Livecounts.nl.
- Livecounts.nl is not affiliated with Eurostat, the ONS or any government. Every live number is our estimate from their published figures.