Why does Wikipedia say Ireland is the most indebted county per capita?

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1. Companies registered here holding bonds. We, as a country, do not owe 3 trillion in debt

2. Sorry I took out a couple of loans to buy apartments in Bulgaria, but I’m on a payment plan I swear!

3. The magic of statistics and their interpretation…..

4. Think half of that is mine, lads.
   My wife and daughter have me broke.

5. We say… Suck it Denmark 😂

6. As part of the deal with the EU to reschedule the bank debt we owed out of the financial crisis, we fully nationalised tonnes of it tho right? And then the EU threw the repayment schedule for around half of it decades into the future. There’s still a lot of it out there afaik. Our formal debt per capita being that high isn’t really surprising. It’s the fact that the payments are very manageable is the thing. Servicing it doesn’t impact us.

7. May not be countrywide but in Donegal nearly every second car is a BMW or Audi. So I would imagine car loans would count toward that statistic and the Irish like to keep up with the Jones’s

8. Just an fyi external debt is completely different to sovereign debt

9. Ireland’s external debt includes liabilities from MNCs

10. Top o’ the world Ma, TOP O’ THE WORLD … at gettin’ indebted. ☘️🇮🇪☘️

11. Because we have huge national debt arising from a forced bailing out of banks to protect the wealthy

12. We do have a big debt, I think every child born here already owes €30,000? There’s a site though where you can watch the debt go down 😅 we’re definitely not in the trillions though!