Press release No. 556 of 21 December 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 2,325.0 billion euros at the end of the third quarter of 2022. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that public debt rose by 0.2%, or 3.9 billion euros, from the end of 2021. Compared with the end of the second quarter of 2022, debt decreased by 0.8%, or 19.0 billion euros. The non-public sector comprises credit institutions and the remaining domestic and non-domestic sector, for instance private businesses in Germany and abroad.
