Press release No. 283 of 2 August 2018
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 1,967.2 billion euros at the end of 2017. This represents a per capita debt of 23,797 euros in Germany. Based on final results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that debt decreased by 2.1% (42.1 billion euros) compared with the revised results as at 31 December 2016. The non-public sector comprises credit institutions, the remaining domestic sector (for instance private businesses) and the remaining non-domestic sector.
Basic data and long time series are available in table debts owed to the non-public sector (71321-0005) GENESIS-Online database
