Press release No. 398 of 20 September 2022
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 1,100.3 billion euros at the end of 2021. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the financial assets thus increased by 6.1%, or 63.2 billion euros, and reached a new record high, as compared with the revised results as at the end of 2020. Due to new loans taken up for Covid-19 emergency aid, the public financial assets exceeded 1.0 trillion euros for the first time in 2020. The non-public sector comprises credit institutions and the remaining domestic and non-domestic sector, for instance private businesses in Germany and abroad.
