Press release No. 346 of 28 September 2016
WIESBADEN – The debt owed by the overall public budget (Federation, Länder, municipalities/associations of municipalities and social security funds, including all extra budgets) to the non-public sector amounted to 2,037.5 billion euros at the end of the first half year of 2016. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was an increase in debt of 0.7% or 14.9 billion euros from 31 December 2015. The non-public sector comprises credit institutions and the remaining domestic (for instance private businesses) and non-domestic sector.
The debt of the Federation rose 21.4 billion euros or 1.7% to 1,286.4 billion euros from 31 December 2015.