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2024-11-19 08:05:48 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: D148B8DD40BAF8AF583D8BF437CC71C6DA4DF995E0BCEB1D69A562DD94576C32
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Graph and post are misleading. Government debt expressed in nominal currency will have a similar trajectory for many countries due to GDP growth and inflation: https://unctad.org/publication/world-of-debt/regional-stories#section5 For figures to be comparable across countries and time, government debt is usually expressed as % of GDP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_debt
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