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 |
2012 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 2011 | Oct. 2012 | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | ||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
CURRENT ACCOUNT |
-9.3 |
84.3 |
7.3 |
6.4 |
6.0 |
6.5 |
9.1 |
7.7 |
9.9 |
10.4 |
3.7 |
10.9 |
2.4 |
3.9 |
|
Memo: as a percentage of GDP |
-0.1 |
0.9 |
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Credit |
2,924.5 |
3,120.4 |
256.5 |
256.6 |
255.9 |
255.3 |
258.4 |
260.6 |
263.0 |
264.8 |
255.8 |
268.6 |
266.3 |
258.4 |
|
Debit |
2,933.8 |
3,036.1 |
249.3 |
250.1 |
249.9 |
248.8 |
249.3 |
252.8 |
253.1 |
254.5 |
252.1 |
257.7 |
263.9 |
254.5 |
|
Goods |
-7.7 |
78.7 |
5.4 |
5.0 |
6.4 |
6.7 |
6.7 |
7.7 |
8.7 |
9.1 |
3.5 |
8.4 |
4.9 |
6.2 |
|
Credit (exports) |
1,738.6 |
1,897.0 |
153.7 |
154.2 |
155.1 |
155.6 |
156.4 |
158.9 |
160.5 |
160.4 |
154.9 |
164.5 |
163.7 |
159.0 |
|
Debit (imports) |
1,746.2 |
1,818.4 |
148.3 |
149.2 |
148.7 |
148.9 |
149.7 |
151.3 |
151.8 |
151.3 |
151.4 |
156.0 |
158.8 |
152.8 |
|
Services |
63.3 |
84.8 |
6.4 |
6.7 |
5.9 |
7.0 |
8.9 |
7.3 |
7.1 |
7.5 |
5.9 |
8.1 |
6.9 |
7.1 |
|
Credit (exports) |
570.0 |
608.3 |
49.1 |
49.9 |
48.7 |
49.9 |
50.3 |
50.9 |
51.4 |
52.5 |
50.1 |
53.1 |
51.3 |
51.2 |
|
Debit (imports) |
506.7 |
523.5 |
42.8 |
43.2 |
42.8 |
42.8 |
41.4 |
43.6 |
44.3 |
45.0 |
44.2 |
45.0 |
44.3 |
44.1 |
|
Income |
40.7 |
31.7 |
4.6 |
4.1 |
3.0 |
2.7 |
2.6 |
1.9 |
3.5 |
2.7 |
2.7 |
3.5 |
0.7 |
-0.1 |
|
Credit |
522.5 |
518.5 |
45.4 |
44.5 |
44.0 |
42.1 |
43.3 |
42.3 |
43.2 |
43.8 |
42.5 |
43.0 |
43.6 |
40.8 |
|
Debit |
481.8 |
486.8 |
40.9 |
40.4 |
41.0 |
39.4 |
40.7 |
40.4 |
39.7 |
41.1 |
39.8 |
39.4 |
43.0 |
41.0 |
|
Current transfers |
-105.7 |
-110.9 |
-9.1 |
-9.3 |
-9.2 |
-9.9 |
-9.1 |
-9.2 |
-9.4 |
-8.9 |
-8.4 |
-9.2 |
-10.1 |
-9.3 |
|
Credit |
93.4 |
96.6 |
8.3 |
8.0 |
8.2 |
7.8 |
8.4 |
8.4 |
7.9 |
8.2 |
8.3 |
8.0 |
7.8 |
7.4 |
|
Debit |
199.1 |
207.4 |
17.4 |
17.3 |
17.4 |
17.6 |
17.5 |
17.5 |
17.3 |
17.0 |
16.6 |
17.2 |
17.8 |
16.6 |
|