Editing Openai/691c5b4b-e984-8009-a9ae-1118077b2b31 (section)

=== Assistant: Good request. ===
Good request. Unfortunately, I don’t find a clean, publicly available annual series for Slovakia’s general government gross debt (% of GDP) going back exactly 20 fiscal years in a readily downloadable table. But I can approximate a bar-plot from the data that is available and outline the limitations. Here’s how I pulled the data + what the chart would look like, and then a sketch of the bar plot.

==== 1. YCharts provides historical annual values (end of year) for Slovakia’s general government debt as % of GDP. YCharts<ref>{{cite web|title=YCharts|url=https://ycharts.com/indicators/slovakia_general_government_gross_debt_outlook|publisher=ycharts.com|access-date=2025-11-19}}</ref> - E.g., 2005: ~34.7%, 2010: ~40.7%, 2021: ~60.2%, etc. YCharts<ref>{{cite web|title=YCharts|url=https://ycharts.com/indicators/slovakia_general_government_gross_debt_outlook|publisher=ycharts.com|access-date=2025-11-19}}</ref> ====
# Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic: updated 2024 data reports 59.28% of GDP for debt. Slovak Statistics<ref>{{cite web|title=Slovak Statistics|url=https://slovak.statistics.sk/wps/portal/ext/home/%21ut/p/z0/04_Sj9CPykssy0xPLMnMz0vMAfIjo8ziA809LZycDB0NLPyCXA08QxwD3IO8TAwNTEz1g1Pz9AuyHRUBtph-Sw%21%21/?1dmy=&urile=wcm%3Apath%3A%2FObsah-EN-INF-AKT%2Finformativne-spravy%2Fvsetky%2F08f3b8fa-9fc3-41a6-af17-878dd2ad738d|publisher=Slovak Statistics|access-date=2025-11-19}}</ref>
# Annual Progress Report (Ministry of Finance): gives some debt-to-GDP data. mfsr.sk<ref>{{cite web|title=mfsr.sk|url=https://www.mfsr.sk/files/sk/financie/institut-financnej-politiky/strategicke-materialy/vyrocna-sprava-pokroku/apr_2025_an_en_version.pdf|publisher=mfsr.sk|access-date=2025-11-19}}</ref>
# Eurostat: has a database of “General government gross debt (EDP concept), consolidated” which is the methodological basis. European Commission<ref>{{cite web|title=European Commission|url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tipsgo20/default/table?lang=en|publisher=European Commission|access-date=2025-11-19}}</ref>

==== Here’s a reconstructed approximate series (based mostly on YCharts + a few official datapoints) for debt-to-GDP. Use this for a bar chart, but note it's approximate: ====

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==== If you plotted these in a bar chart: ====
* X-axis: Years (2005 to 2024)
* Y-axis: Debt as % of GDP
* Bars would start low around ~ 35% in mid-2000s, dip slightly, then climb strongly after 2010, peaking around 2021 (~60%), then slightly drop and rise again by 2024 (~59%).

The trend shows significant buildup of public debt over the last 10-15 years, especially post-2010.

==== - The data from YCharts is based on “outlook” or published historical series — may not exactly match final revised EDP data from Eurostat or national accounts. ====
* There may be quarter-to-quarter variation not captured by annual data.
* The 2024 number is based on a preliminary or revised figure from the Slovak Statistical Office. Slovak Statistics<ref>{{cite web|title=Slovak Statistics|url=https://slovak.statistics.sk/ExportPdf2/PdfExportSrvlt?Document=4ec9b956-c520-4b9a-a122-39c8254463f2|publisher=Slovak Statistics|access-date=2025-11-19}}</ref>
* Methodology matters: «gross debt» means consolidated government debt under Maastricht / EDP definitions.

If you like, I can generate a high-precision chart (with downloadable PNG/SVG) using official Eurostat annual data (if I pull the full dataset). Do you want me to do that?