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Public finance

Since the 1950s, public expenditure in the overwhelming majority of cases has exceeded revenue so that, except for a few years, public budgets have recorded financial deficits. In the time span since German reunification, public debt has more than tripled.

 



Development of public finance Euro bn
YearExpenditure1Revenue1Financial
balance1		Debt2
1 From 2009 public budgets including state extra budgets, 2009 revised results.
2 Including municipal extra budgets, 2010 preliminary results.
195014.413.5- 0.99.6
1970100.496.3- 4.164.2
1990585.2558.0- 27.1538.3
20051,002.2946.5- 55.81,489.9
20091,126.31,019.4- 106.91,694.4
20101,127.81,049.6- 78.12,001.5



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