In 2024, a Europe-wide harmonized major revision of the National Accounts took place in Germany. The revised results were published for the first time in july 2024.
Major revisions of national accounts are performed approximately every five years (last in 2019).
As part of the 2024 revision of the national accounts, the new classification of private consumption expenditure in particular was implemented, data sources that were not yet used or available were incorporated and the calculation methods were reviewed and revised where necessary. In addition, the entire national accounting system was reviewed and revised and, if necessary, new findings were integrated into the calculations. In order to avoid breaks in time series, the results for Germany were recalculated from 1991 onwards.
