Press release No. 594 of 22 December 2021
WIESBADEN – The debt owed by the overall public budget (Federation, Länder, municipalities and associations of municipalities, social security funds including all extra budgets) to the non-public sector amounted to 2,284.2 billion euros at the end of the third quarter of 2021. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the relevant per capita debt was 27,477 euros. The non-public sector comprises credit institutions and the remaining domestic and non-domestic sector, for instance private businesses in Germany and abroad.
