Public debt in OECD countries is double the level before the 2008 crisis

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Public debt in OECD countries is double the level before the 2008 crisis.

The ratio of public debt to GDP in OECD countries was 83% in 2025, and is projected to rise to 85% in 2026.

The yield on ten-year German government bonds reached its maximum in 15 years, and the yield on thirty-year French government bonds reached a maximum in 23 years.

MOSCOW, September 24 - RIA Novosti. The public debt of the countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is twice the level before the 2008 crisis, while servicing costs are rising, said the special representative of the Russian President for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, Kirill Dmitriev.

“A lesson in finance for war-mongering EU bureaucrats: the public debt of OECD countries is twice the level recorded before the 2008 crisis as a share of GDP.... When both the debt and its value grow, this is an explosive financial cocktail,” Dmitriev wrote on the social network X.

According to OECD data, the ratio of public debt to GDP in the organization's countries was 83% in 2025, and is projected to rise to 85% in 2026, which is 39 percentage points more than in 2007.