Big numbers translator
Billions are hard to picture. Enter an amount to see it per person, against the economy, and next to annual budgets.
£50 billion is roughly…
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Comparisons show scale only. They do not imply one budget could be swapped for another, or that debt could be redirected. Annual budgets are the latest available figures and may be revised. Share of GDP divides by the GDP figure implied by the published debt ratio, so it will not exactly match a ratio the ONS publishes itself. The debt ratio uses GDP for the twelve months centred on the month, while the ONS borrowing ratio uses GDP for the financial year, so the year's borrowing shows here as 4.2% of GDP against the published 4.4%.