what does debt to gdp ratio tell us
- In 2013, United States public debt-to-GDP ratio was 71.8%, according to the CIA World Factbook, or 104.5%, according to the IMF including external debt.he debt-to-GDP ratio is generally expressed as a percentage, but properly has units of years, as below. By dimensional analysis these quantities are the ratio of a stock (with dimensions of currency) by a flow (with dimensions of currency/time), so they have dimensions of time.