Press release No. 373 of 24 September 2019
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 (credit institutions and the remaining domestic and non-domestic sector, for instance private businesses in the domestic territory and abroad) amounted to 1,919.2 billion euros at the end of the first six months of 2019. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that debt increased by 0.1%, or 2.5 billion euros, compared with the end of 2018.
However, debt declined by 0.4% (-7.9 billion euros) on the first quarter of 2019 and by 0.8% (-15.4 billion euros) compared with the first half of 2018.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Debts owed to the non-public sector in the GENESIS-Online database.
