China's economy under pressure from rising debt
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As China's economic engine cools, the country's national debt is set to balloon to triple the size of its economy by the end of the year, economists warn.

China’s macro leverage ratio, or total outstanding non-financial debt as a share of its nominal GDP, climbed by over $560 billion to reach 287.8 percent last year, more than twice the roughly 120 percent of its economic rival the U.S. The new data would put China ahead of Japan, previously the world’s most indebted country, whose sovereign debt accounted for about 220 percent of its GDP by the second quarter of 2023.

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