Press release No. 136 of 30 March 2022
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 2,319.8 billion euros at the end of 2021. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the relevant per capita debt was 27,906 euros. The non-public sector comprises credit institutions and the remaining domestic and non-domestic sector, for instance private businesses in Germany and abroad.
