^1a Seasonally and calendar-adjusted (Census-X12-ARIMA).

^1b Working day adjusted data (Census-X12-ARIMA).

^1c Seasonally adjusted data (Census-X12-ARIMA).

² Persons with place of residence in Germany.

^3a Persons in private households aged 15 to 74 years, German Labour Force Survey.

^3b Registered unemployed persons, Federal Labour Office, Germany.

⁴ Without extra payments.

^4a The figures on December 2016 do not take into account the result of the supplementary budget 2016 and are therefore provisional.

⁵ (-) debt repayment; (+) borrowing.

⁶ From 2005 including cumulative assumption of FDE/LAG debt (German Unity Fund/Equalisation of Burdens Fund).

⁷ Data are not seasonally adjusted. Whilst latest data are deemed provisional, data for previous periods are final (if no substantial revisions were to occur).

⁸ Incl. credit to non-financial public enterprises.

⁹ Refers to assets vis-à-vis non-euro-area residents.

¹⁰ Refers to liabilities to non-euro-area residents.

¹¹ Refers to banknotes in circulation and the following deposits of euro-area MFIs held with the Deutsche Bundesbank, denominated in euro: "current accounts (covering the minimum reserve system)", "deposit facility", "fixed-term deposits", "fine-tuning reverse operations" and "deposits related to margin calls".

¹² The Bundesbank is not allowed to grant credit to the public sector; the amounts shown in this category refer to "grandfathered"equalisation claims originating from the German currency reform in 1948.

¹³ Credit to the private sector is restricted to financial sector counterparties; there is no credit to non-financial (public) enterprises.

¹⁴ Refers to claims on non-euro area residents.

¹⁵ The data can be accessed by clicking on 'Auction result - Treasury discount paper (Unverzinsliche Schatzanweisungen "Bubills") of the Federal Republic of Germany' provided under 'Current press releases on Federal securities'.

¹⁶ End-of-period figures.

¹⁷ The Deutsche Bundesbank publishes the DAX index on a monthly basis only. More frequently updated data can be obtained from other sources.

¹⁸ Whilst the latest data are deemed provisional, data for previous periods are final unless substantial revisions occur. Furthermore, the data referring to the latest four years are revised every year in March.

¹⁹ Quoting percentage changes in net flows is not meaningful.

²⁰ Including employee stock options.

²¹ Reserves are defined as foreign currency denominated claims on non-euro area residents plus gold, holdings of SDRs and the reserve position in the Fund.

²² Quoting percentage changes in (net) balances is not meaningful.

²³ A quarterly IIP is being published from September 2005 onwards.

²⁴ External Debt presents only a fraction of the overall financial relationships of Germany with other countries and is more than offset by Germany's external assets.

^p Preliminary results.

^r Revised figures.

. = numerical value unknown or not to be disclosed

- = no figures or magnitude zero, no further information

X = cell blocked for logical reasons