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• Press release 399 / 2018-10-16

  Third party funds per university professor in 2016: no change from the previous year (258,000 euros)

  In 2016, professors at German universities (excluding medical institutions/university health sciences) raised third party funds of an average 258,000 euros. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this amount corresponded roughly to the level recorded in the previous year (-0.1%).

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• Press release 398 / 2018-10-16

  Tax paid on fewer cigarettes in the third quarter of 2018

  As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the quantity of cigarettes on which tax was paid in Germany decreased by 3.6% in the third quarter of 2018 compared with the same quarter a year earlier. The total value of tobacco products in terms of retail prices on which tax was paid in Germany in the third quarter of 2018 amounted to 7.0 billion euros. There was no change from the corresponding period of the preceding year.

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• Press release 397 / 2018-10-16

  Import prices in August 2018: +4.8% on August 2017

  Import prices, August 2018
  0.0% on the previous month
  +4.8% on the same month a year earlier
  
  Export prices, August 2018
  0.2% on the previous month
  +2.1% on the same month a year earlier

  As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the index of import prices increased by 4.8% in August 2018 compared with the corresponding month of the preceding year. In July and in June 2018 the annual rates of change were +4.8% and +4.4%, respectively. From July 2018 to August 2018 the index did not change.

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• Press release 396 / 2018-10-15

  Migration in 2017: immigration to Germany exceeding emigration by 416,000

  In 2017, the number of people who immigrated to Germany exceeded the number of those who emigrated by roughly 416,000 people. In 2016, net immigration had amounted to roughly 500,000. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that arrivals totalled 1,551,000 in 2017 and departures across Germany's borders amounted to 1,135,000. In 2016, there had been 1,865,000 arrivals and 1,365,000 departures.

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• Press release 395 / 2018-10-15

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  Public revenue up 6.5% and expenditure up 3.5% in the first half of 2018 year on year

  Revenue of the overall public budget rose by 6.5% to 715.4 billion euros in the first half of 2018 compared with a year earlier. The overall public budget comprises the core and extra budgets of the Federation, Länder, municipalities/associations of municipalities and social security funds. Expenditure increased by 3.5% to 688.6 billion euros. These are provisional results of the core and extra budgets of the quarterly cash statistics. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, as defined in public finance statistics, this was a cash surplus of 26.8 billion euros in the first six months of 2018. In the first half of 2017, the surplus had been 6.3 billion euros.

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