National accounts, domestic product

20.8 trillion euro capital stock on a gross basis at the end of 2019

At the end of 2019, the replacement value of fixed assets available for production in the national economy amounted to Euro 20.8 trillion.

In national wealth accounts, the Federal Statistical Office provides selected data on non-financial assets of the national economy, in particular on the stock of fixed assets and on the stock of consumer durables of households, while the financial assets are determined by Deutsche Bundesbank. The publication issued jointly with the Deutsche Bundesbank Balance sheets for institutional sectors and the total economy is available published in december 2019. For basic information on the methods of calculating the stock of fixed assets please refer to the paper Measuring capital stock in Germany.

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In the "EXSTAT – Experimental statistics section" we regularly publish new and innovative project results of the Federal Statistical Office. These are obtained by using new data sources and methods. Both the degree of maturity and quality of the results differ from those of official statistics, especially regarding harmonisation, coverage and methodology. Nonetheless these results of the statistical offices of the Federation and the Länder offer new and interesting ways of looking at various statistical topics.