Press release No. 307 of 13 August 2020
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 (credit institutions and the remaining domestic and non-domestic sector, for instance private businesses in the domestic territory and abroad) amounted to 1,898.8 billion euros at the end of 2019. This represents a per capita debt of 22,857 euros (2018: 23,113 euros) in Germany. Based on final results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that debt decreased by 0.9% (17.0 billion euros) compared with the revised results as at 31 December 2018.
Basic data and long time series are available in table debts owed to the non-public sector (71321-0005) GENESIS-Online database.
