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 |
2012 |
||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 2011 | Dec. 2012 | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | ||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
CURRENT ACCOUNT |
8.9 |
116.1 |
6.0 |
6.5 |
9.1 |
7.2 |
9.8 |
9.6 |
9.9 |
10.9 |
9.4 |
8.0 |
15.9 |
13.9 |
|
Memo: as a percentage of GDP |
0.1 |
1.2 |
|||||||||||||
Credit |
2,971.1 |
3,130.0 |
255.9 |
255.3 |
258.4 |
260.0 |
262.5 |
264.5 |
259.5 |
266.3 |
267.4 |
258.1 |
259.1 |
263.0 |
|
Debit |
2,962.2 |
3,013.9 |
249.9 |
248.8 |
249.3 |
252.8 |
252.7 |
254.9 |
249.6 |
255.4 |
257.9 |
250.1 |
243.2 |
249.2 |
|
Goods |
5.1 |
107.4 |
6.4 |
6.7 |
6.7 |
7.7 |
8.8 |
8.5 |
6.8 |
10.0 |
9.0 |
10.2 |
13.0 |
13.7 |
|
Credit (exports) |
1,772.5 |
1,913.2 |
155.1 |
155.6 |
156.4 |
159.0 |
160.8 |
160.5 |
156.5 |
164.5 |
162.9 |
158.8 |
160.6 |
162.4 |
|
Debit (imports) |
1,767.4 |
1,805.8 |
148.7 |
148.9 |
149.7 |
151.4 |
152.0 |
152.0 |
149.7 |
154.6 |
153.9 |
148.7 |
147.6 |
148.7 |
|
Services |
67.0 |
89.2 |
5.9 |
7.0 |
8.9 |
7.5 |
7.5 |
7.7 |
6.9 |
8.1 |
7.2 |
7.4 |
7.2 |
7.9 |
|
Credit (exports) |
575.9 |
614.7 |
48.7 |
49.9 |
50.3 |
51.1 |
51.2 |
52.5 |
51.0 |
52.4 |
52.2 |
51.2 |
52.0 |
52.4 |
|
Debit (imports) |
508.9 |
525.4 |
42.8 |
42.8 |
41.4 |
43.6 |
43.8 |
44.8 |
44.0 |
44.2 |
45.0 |
43.8 |
44.7 |
44.5 |
|
Income |
43.6 |
28.2 |
3.0 |
2.7 |
2.6 |
1.3 |
3.0 |
2.4 |
5.1 |
1.9 |
2.9 |
-0.3 |
3.1 |
0.6 |
|
Credit |
528.2 |
506.6 |
44.0 |
42.1 |
43.3 |
41.6 |
42.7 |
43.4 |
43.9 |
41.5 |
44.1 |
40.7 |
39.0 |
40.3 |
|
Debit |
484.6 |
478.4 |
41.0 |
39.4 |
40.7 |
40.3 |
39.6 |
41.0 |
38.8 |
39.6 |
41.3 |
41.0 |
35.9 |
39.6 |
|
Current transfers |
-106.8 |
-108.7 |
-9.2 |
-9.9 |
-9.1 |
-9.2 |
-9.5 |
-9.0 |
-8.9 |
-9.1 |
-9.6 |
-9.2 |
-7.5 |
-8.4 |
|
Credit |
94.6 |
95.5 |
8.2 |
7.8 |
8.4 |
8.3 |
7.8 |
8.1 |
8.1 |
7.9 |
8.1 |
7.4 |
7.5 |
7.9 |
|
Debit |
201.3 |
204.3 |
17.4 |
17.6 |
17.5 |
17.5 |
17.4 |
17.1 |
17.0 |
17.0 |
17.8 |
16.6 |
15.0 |
16.3 |
|