Eurozone debt crisis: the key charts you need to understand what's happening

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/nov/07/euro-debt-crisis-data

How bad are things in Europe - and how does each country compare?

Well, bsieds the data below, Polly Curtis' Reality Check series is a good place to start, answering key questions such as What would the collapse of the euro mean for the UK? and What happens if Greece leaves the euro?

We wanted to see which key indicators are the best for comparing Europe and might help us understand what's going on a little better. The best source for this info is Eurostat. You can download the full data below. What would you add?
1. Government debt

These are the big scary numbers - although it's still regularly mixed up with the deficit (see below) by journalists and politicians alike. As a whole, Europe owes €10,125,117,000,000 - or €10.1 trillion. But it's more meaningful to look at the number as a percent of gross domestic product, or GDP. So, we want to see how much that debt is as a proportion of the whole economy - kind of equivalent to measuring your mortgage compared to the whole economic value of your household. That gives us a European average of 80.9% in the second quarter of this year. But that figure hides a lot of variation: Greece, at the top, owes 151.9%, followed by Italy 121.4%. The UK is just below average at 80.1%. There's nothing inherently bad about having a huge debt - it depends who you owe it to and whether you can manage the payments. Bigger countries are also in a better position: essentially, if you owe the bank £50,000, you've got a problem; if you owe the bank £50,000,000, the bank's got a problem.

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1. What's up with the link?

Doesn't seem to work, but the article sounds very interesting.

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2. i don't know -- cause it works for me. nt