General Government budget was in surplus again
According to preliminary data of Statistics Estonia, in 2011 the Estonian general government sector surplus was 1% and gross debt level was 6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
At the end of 2011, the total revenues of the general government surmounted the expenditures, accounted as the Maastricht deficit criteria, by 163.9 million euros. The volume of the revenues as well as expenditures increased compared to 2010. The total revenues increased to 6.3 billion euros (7%) and the total expenditures to 6.1 billion euros (5%). Only the revenue from property income decreased mainly due to reducing of the dividends paid to the state.