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 nearly tripled.

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financial assets of the government sector?
cash statistics of the public sector?
Debt, financial assets of public budgets?

Development of public finance Euro bn
Year	Expenditure	Revenue	Financial balance	Debt
¹ Public budgets including extra budgets without special-purpose associations.
1950	14.4	13.5	-0.9	9.6
1970	100.4	96.3	-4.1	62.9
1990	585.2	558.0	-27.1	536.2
2005	1,002.2	946.5	-55.8	1,477.5
2007¹	1,016.1	1,026.4	+11.1	1,499.6
2008¹	1,053.2	1,050.7	-2.5	1,515.0

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