Italian Public Debt: Increase of 26.2 billion in June

Last June, public administration debt increased by 26.2 billion compared to the previous month, amounting to 3,207.2 billion. This was announced by the Bank of Italy in the publication "Public finance: needs and debt".

The increase reflects the needs of the public administrations (13.3 billion), the growth of the Treasury's liquid assets (9.8 billion, to 61.7), as well as the effect of the discounts and premiums on issuance and redemption, the revaluation of inflation-indexed securities and the change in exchange rates (3.1 billion).

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The data shows that the share of Italian public debt in foreign hands is rising. In June the share of debt held by the Bank of Italy continued to decrease, reaching 16.7% (from 17.2 in the previous month), while in May (the last month for which this data is available) that held by non-residents increased to 35.9% (from 35.7 in the previous month) and that held by other residents (mainly families and non-financial businesses) decreased to 14.5% (from 14.7% in the previous month). previous).

According to the Via Nazionale institute, in the month of June 2026 the tax revenues accounted for in the state budget amounted to 43.2 billion, a decrease of 1.3% (0.6 billion) compared to the corresponding month of 2025. Bank of Italy specifies that in the first six months of 2026 the tax revenues amounted to 261 billion, an increase of 1.4% (3.6 billion) compared to the same period of the year previous.