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 Balance of the General Government in the year ending in the quarter (% of GDP)
Characteristic Description
Name Balance of the General Government in the year ending in the quarter (% of GDP); Quarterly
Regularity Quarterly
Source Statistics Portugal, Quarterly national accounts
First available period 4th Quarter 1999
Last available period 4th Quarter 2024
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Quarter)
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • GOVERNMENT (Institutional sector):  The government sector includes all institutional units whose primary function is to produce other, non-market goods and services for individual and collective consumption and/or engaging in the redistribution of income and national wealth. These units' main resources come from mandatory payments made directly or indirectly by units belonging to other sectors.
  • ECONOMIC TERRITORY:  Territory that consists on: (a) the geographic territory administered by a government within which persons, goods, services and capital move freely; (b) any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control; (c) the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights; (d) territorial enclaves (i.e. geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between States, by general government agencies of the country (embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.); (e) deposits of oil, natural gas, etc., in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in the preceding subparagraphs.
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 26/03/2025


information presented in 3/4/2025