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Uncommon card · Society
Government debt, an Uncommon card
A country's gross government debt is the financial liabilities of the government sector.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 155
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 55,000
Power 155 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Changes in government debt over time reflect primarily borrowing due to past government deficits.
- A deficit occurs when a government's expenditures exceed revenues.
- Government debt may be owed to domestic residents, as well as to foreign residents.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Government debt article was read about 55,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Government debt
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Government debt (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : International Monetary Fund (IMF) Government Finance Statistics, via World Bank (2026) – p, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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