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.

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financial assets of the government sector?
debt of public budgets?
cash statistics of the public sector?

Development of public finance Euro bn
Year	Expenditure¹	Revenue¹	Financial balance¹	Debt²
¹ From 2009 public budgets including state extra budgets, 2009 revised results. ² Including municipal extra budgets, 2010 preliminary results.
1950	14.4	13.5	- 0.9	9.6
1970	100.4	96.3	- 4.1	64.2
1990	585.2	558.0	- 27.1	538.3
2005	1,002.2	946.5	- 55.8	1,489.9
2009	1,126.3	1,019.4	- 106.9	1,694.4
2010	1,127.8	1,049.6	- 78.1	2,001.5

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