Table 1: Current account of the euro area
(EUR billions unless otherwise indicated; transactions; working day and seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending |
2011 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 2010 | Dec. 2011 | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | ||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
CURRENT ACCOUNT |
-45.7 |
-30.6 |
-3.5 |
-5.1 |
-1.6 |
-5.6 |
-4.1 |
-3.6 |
-3.4 |
-2.2 |
3.9 |
-6.6 |
-0.9 |
2.0 |
|
Memo: as a percentage of GDP |
-0.5 |
-0.3 |
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Credit |
2,607.0 |
2,877.3 |
233.7 |
235.6 |
238.0 |
237.0 |
239.0 |
237.5 |
241.5 |
242.0 |
244.0 |
241.2 |
244.9 |
242.8 |
|
Debit |
2,652.7 |
2,907.9 |
237.2 |
240.7 |
239.6 |
242.6 |
243.1 |
241.1 |
244.9 |
244.2 |
240.1 |
247.8 |
245.8 |
240.8 |
|
Goods |
8.7 |
4.1 |
-0.8 |
-1.3 |
0.7 |
-5.3 |
1.1 |
-0.6 |
-0.7 |
-0.6 |
3.3 |
-4.0 |
5.2 |
7.3 |
|
Credit (exports) |
1,551.2 |
1,765.5 |
143.1 |
145.0 |
146.3 |
145.7 |
146.5 |
144.8 |
146.4 |
148.8 |
148.2 |
147.0 |
152.7 |
150.9 |
|
Debit (imports) |
1,542.5 |
1,761.4 |
143.8 |
146.3 |
145.6 |
151.1 |
145.4 |
145.4 |
147.1 |
149.4 |
145.0 |
151.0 |
147.6 |
143.6 |
|
Services |
45.9 |
59.4 |
5.0 |
3.9 |
4.0 |
4.3 |
4.8 |
5.7 |
5.4 |
5.1 |
7.0 |
5.3 |
4.7 |
4.3 |
|
Credit (exports) |
517.4 |
542.0 |
45.1 |
44.2 |
44.3 |
44.0 |
44.3 |
45.2 |
45.9 |
45.3 |
46.8 |
46.4 |
45.1 |
45.5 |
|
Debit (imports) |
471.5 |
482.6 |
40.1 |
40.3 |
40.3 |
39.7 |
39.5 |
39.5 |
40.5 |
40.2 |
39.8 |
41.1 |
40.4 |
41.2 |
|
Income |
3.0 |
9.2 |
0.6 |
1.1 |
2.3 |
3.9 |
-1.2 |
0.2 |
1.0 |
1.3 |
1.2 |
-0.9 |
0.6 |
-0.9 |
|
Credit |
451.1 |
480.3 |
38.0 |
38.7 |
40.0 |
39.8 |
41.0 |
40.4 |
41.3 |
40.1 |
40.7 |
39.1 |
41.8 |
39.5 |
|
Debit |
448.0 |
471.1 |
37.3 |
37.6 |
37.6 |
35.8 |
42.3 |
40.1 |
40.3 |
38.8 |
39.6 |
40.0 |
41.2 |
40.4 |
|
Current transfers |
-103.3 |
-103.3 |
-8.4 |
-8.8 |
-8.6 |
-8.5 |
-8.7 |
-8.9 |
-9.0 |
-8.0 |
-7.5 |
-7.0 |
-11.3 |
-8.6 |
|
Credit |
87.3 |
89.5 |
7.6 |
7.7 |
7.4 |
7.5 |
7.2 |
7.2 |
7.9 |
7.9 |
8.2 |
8.7 |
5.3 |
7.0 |
|
Debit |
190.6 |
192.8 |
16.0 |
16.5 |
16.1 |
16.0 |
15.9 |
16.1 |
16.9 |
15.8 |
15.7 |
15.7 |
16.6 |
15.6 |
|