European Public Finance
The fiscal position of every European country in one clean Parquet: general-government revenue, expenditure and deficit/surplus, plus Maastricht gross debt - all as a percentage of GDP, one row per country × measure × year since 1995. The four numbers behind every sovereign-credit call and EU fiscal-rule debate, cleaned from Eurostat's national accounts and validated against the headline figures; joins to macro, inflation and rates on country code.
- Source
- Eurostat
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Annual
- Data through
- 2025-01-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- Government revenue, expenditure, deficit/surplus and Maastricht gross debt - all % of GDP
- Every European country, annual, back to 1995 - the full fiscal history
- The core inputs to sovereign-credit and EU fiscal-rule analysis
- Value-checked against headline figures; one row per country × measure × year
- Source: Eurostat (CC-BY-4.0, Decision 2011/833/EU) - EU/EFTA + candidate & neighbourhood geos
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Geo / country code (DE, FR, IT, …) | 100.0% | 30 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Year | 100.0% | 31 |
| series | str | Revenue / Expenditure / Deficit-surplus / Gross debt (all % GDP) | 100.0% | 18 |
| value | float | Value (% of GDP) | 100.0% | 955 |
| unit | str | Unit | 100.0% | 1 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (annual) | 100.0% | 1 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: Eurostat (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("european-public-finance_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 30 zones
AT · BE · BG · CH · CY · CZ · DE · DK · EE · EL · ES · FI · FR · HR · HU · IE · IS · IT · LT · LU · LV · MT · NL · NO · PL · PT · RO · SE · SI · SK
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