Table 1: Current account of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions, working day and seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending |
2007 |
2008 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 07 | May 08 | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | ||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
CURRENT ACCOUNT |
13.0 |
-5.8 |
7.3 |
4.7 |
2.8 |
2.2 |
1.9 |
0.0 |
-6.2 |
-7.6 |
7.3 |
-12.5 |
1.5 |
-7.3 |
|
credit |
2,504.3 |
2,726.6 |
222.2 |
222.9 |
225.5 |
227.1 |
227.1 |
224.9 |
221.9 |
229.2 |
238.9 |
223.1 |
235.0 |
228.7 |
|
debit |
2,491.3 |
2,732.4 |
214.8 |
218.2 |
222.7 |
224.9 |
225.2 |
224.9 |
228.1 |
236.9 |
231.6 |
235.6 |
233.5 |
236.0 |
|
Goods |
43.1 |
35.4 |
7.6 |
4.9 |
6.4 |
4.3 |
5.9 |
3.5 |
-3.3 |
0.0 |
4.9 |
-2.8 |
7.1 |
-3.3 |
|
credit (exports) |
1,444.9 |
1,552.6 |
126.6 |
126.5 |
129.0 |
128.9 |
128.5 |
128.3 |
124.7 |
131.9 |
133.7 |
127.8 |
135.7 |
131.1 |
|
debit (imports) |
1,401.8 |
1,517.2 |
119.0 |
121.6 |
122.6 |
124.5 |
122.6 |
124.8 |
128.0 |
131.8 |
128.7 |
130.6 |
128.6 |
134.4 |
|
Services |
44.1 |
51.5 |
3.7 |
4.1 |
4.7 |
5.3 |
4.0 |
4.4 |
3.4 |
5.5 |
5.8 |
4.2 |
3.6 |
2.7 |
|
credit (exports) |
458.4 |
498.5 |
40.9 |
41.0 |
42.3 |
42.4 |
41.3 |
41.8 |
41.4 |
41.9 |
42.0 |
41.0 |
41.4 |
41.0 |
|
debit (imports) |
414.3 |
447.0 |
37.2 |
36.9 |
37.6 |
37.1 |
37.3 |
37.3 |
38.0 |
36.5 |
36.2 |
36.9 |
37.8 |
38.3 |
|
Income |
5.6 |
0.5 |
0.7 |
2.4 |
-0.4 |
0.3 |
1.4 |
0.1 |
1.1 |
-2.1 |
1.6 |
-1.7 |
-2.1 |
-0.8 |
|
credit |
512.0 |
587.4 |
47.3 |
48.0 |
47.1 |
48.9 |
50.6 |
49.1 |
46.8 |
50.3 |
52.6 |
49.2 |
47.9 |
49.5 |
|
debit |
506.4 |
586.9 |
46.5 |
45.5 |
47.5 |
48.6 |
49.2 |
49.1 |
45.7 |
52.4 |
51.0 |
51.0 |
50.0 |
50.3 |
|
Current transfers |
-79.8 |
-93.1 |
-4.7 |
-6.7 |
-8.0 |
-7.7 |
-9.4 |
-8.0 |
-7.4 |
-11.0 |
-5.0 |
-12.2 |
-7.2 |
-5.9 |
|
credit |
89.1 |
88.2 |
7.4 |
7.4 |
7.1 |
7.0 |
6.7 |
5.8 |
9.0 |
5.1 |
10.7 |
5.0 |
10.0 |
7.1 |
|
debit |
168.9 |
181.3 |
12.1 |
14.1 |
15.0 |
14.6 |
16.1 |
13.8 |
16.4 |
16.1 |
15.7 |
17.2 |
17.1 |
13.0 |
|