France’s public debt, live
That is about €3,639.3 billion. The clock starts from the latest official figure and moves at the pace of France’s 2025 public deficit.
Latest official figure: €3,595.5 billion on 30 June 2026, i.e. 119.0% of GDP (INSEE, published 29 September 2026). Pace: €152.5 billion per year, about €4,836 per second. This is an estimate, not an official figure.
Debt is a hole that gets deeper every year. See below ↓At the pace of the 2025 deficit, the debt grows by:
2025 public deficit: €152.5 billion (Eurostat, INSEE data), spread evenly over the year. Estimate.Per inhabitant, that is about €6 of extra debt per day (€417.8m ÷ 69,112,309 inhabitants).
Debt: a hole that keeps getting deeper
Public debt is all the money borrowed by the French State, social security and local authorities that still has to be repaid.
Every year in which spending exceeds revenue, money is missing: that is the deficit. It is borrowed and added to the debt. The hole gets a little deeper.
- Debt on 31 December 1980€95bn
- Debt on 31 December 2025€3,460bn
- Multiplied byabout 36
In euros of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Depth of the drawing proportional to the debt on 31 December of each year. Sources: INSEE, annual national accounts, Maastricht debt (1980–2025); “today”: clock estimate.
Key figures
In the first quarter of 2026, France’s public debt was 117.6% of GDP, the third-highest ratio in the European Union after Greece (143.5%) and Italy (138.9%). Euro area: 88.9%. Source: Eurostat.
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Sources
- INSEE (public debt, quarterly and annual)
- Eurostat (deficit, spending, revenue, interest, population, EU comparison)
- European Central Bank (10-year rates)