Web of debt: FAQs

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The BBC News website's interactive feature, Eurozone debt web: Who owes what to whom?, has been extremely popular.

As a result, we have received hundreds of emails asking a range of questions. Here are the answers to some of the most popular.

Why does the graphic show the gross debt owed to foreign banks by each country, rather than the balance of debt between countries?

Why don't the debt figures shown in the circle add up to the total gross external debt for a country shown above the text on the right?

Why isn't China included?

Why is Ireland's foreign debt so high? Is the figure wrong?

Why does it say in the text that Germany is exposed to Greek, Irish, Portuguese and Spanish debt when there are no arrows from Germany to these countries?

Why isn't there more information on government debt?