The deficit in context
The deficit in context: test
This chart places Scotland's deficit in the context of both the EU's excessive deficit threshold and the UK's deficit and quantifies what it would take to close the gap to either of those (or to eliminate the deficit entirely).
The scaling figures are all based on the chosen year's GDP. Growing GDP faster than spending (but still growing revenue with GDP) would be another way of closing the deficit gaps. For example, if revenue as a percentage of GDP remained the same, a 16.5% reduction in spending (measured as a percent of GDP) would require a 19.8% rise in GDP over a period where spending remained static.