Press release No. 436 of 16 September 2021
WIESBADEN – The financial assets of the overall public budget (Federation, Länder, municipalities and associations of municipalities, social security funds, including all extra budgets) in the non-public sector amounted to 1,029.3 billion euros at the end of 2020. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the financial assets increased by 5.7%, or 55.1 billion euros, compared with the revised results as at the end of 2019. The increase to a value of over 1.0 trillion euros is especially due to funds not spent from loans taken up by the Federation during the coronavirus crisis. The non-public sector comprises credit institutions and the remaining domestic and non-domestic sector, for instance private businesses in Germany and abroad.
