Press release No. 230 of 26 June 2018
WIESBADEN –The debt owed by the overall public budget (Federation, Länder, municipalities/associations of municipalities and social security funds, including all extra budgets) to the non-public sector amounted to 1,948.7 billion euros at the end of the first quarter of 2018. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a decrease in debt of 2.0%, or 40.1 billion euros, compared with the end of the first quarter of 2017. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2017, debt was down by 0.9% or 18 billion euros. The non-public sector comprises credit institutions, the remaining domestic sector (for instance private businesses) and the remaining non-domestic sector.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Debts owed to the non-public sector in the GENESIS-Online database.
