MADRID, 3 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Valencian Community and Catalonia were the two autonomous communities with the highest debt to the State in 2020, both per capita and in absolute terms, according to a Fedea study.

In the case of the former, it has a debt of 8,428 euros per inhabitant, while the region governed by Pere Aragonés has a debt of 8,408 euros for each Catalan citizen. On the contrary, Madrid has settled its debt with the General Administration and is at zero.

This follows from the report published by Fedea this Monday, which includes the update of the series of homogeneous financing of the autonomous communities of the common regime, which has revealed that the debt of the autonomous communities to the State amounted to 178,865 million euros during the exercise of 2020.

At this point, Catalonia is the autonomous community that has the highest debt with the State in absolute terms, more than 63,615 million euros in 2020. It is followed by the Valencian Community, with 41,931 million euros.

In absolute terms, Andalusia follows (25,794 million); Castilla-La Mancha (11,238 million); Murcia (8,951 million); Balearic Islands (5,226 million); Aragon (4,746 million); Galicia (3,795 million); Castilla y León (3,725 million); Cantabria (2,979 million); Canary Islands (2,961 million); Extremadura (2,313 million); Asturias (1,115 million); La Rioja (476 million) and finally Madrid, with zero.

Per inhabitant, the Valencian Community is the one with the most debt (8,428 euros per capita), followed by Catalonia (8,408 euros per capita) and Murcia (6,015 euros per capita).

After these three appear Castilla-La Mancha (5,487.8 euros per capita); Cantabria (5,121.7 euros per capita); Balearic Islands (4,316.3 euros per capita); Aragon (3,565.3 euros per capita); Andalusia (3,060 euros per capita); Extremadura (2,186.2 euros per capita); Castilla y León (1,560 euros per capita); La Rioja (1,517 euros per capita); Galicia (1,405 euros per capita) and Asturias (1,091 euros per capita).