Expenditure, revenue and financial balance of public budgets

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Overall public budget in the 1st quarter of 2024: public revenue +5.7%, expenditure -0.2%

According to results of quarterly cash statistics, revenue of the core and extra budgets of the overall public budget rose by 5.7% to 448.8 billion euros in the first quarter of 2024.

5 April 2023 Public financial deficit of 127.3 billion euros in 2022

The expenditure of the overall public budget rose by 6.4% to 1,875.4 billion euros in 2022 compared with the previous year. Revenue increased somewhat more than expenditure over the same period, by 7.3% to 1,748.3 billion euros. This was a cash deficit - as defined in public finance statistics - of 127.3 billion euros, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This represented a decrease of roughly 6 billion euros from 2021 and of approximately 62 billion euros from 2020. The last financial surplus (45.2 billion euros) was recorded in the pre-crisis year of 2019.

3 April 2023 Municipalities achieving surplus of 2.6 billion euros in 2022 despite substantially higher expenditure

11 January 2023 Public expenditure up 1.5% and revenue up 9.1% year on year in the first three quarters of 2022

11 October 2022 Financial deficit in the overall public budget down to 32.9 billion euros

5 October 2022 Municipalities reduce their financial deficit to 1.6 billion euros in the first half of 2022

7 April 2022 Public financial deficit of 133.2 billion euros in 2021

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