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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 07 | Dec. 08 | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | ||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
CURRENT ACCOUNT |
36.3 |
-63.2 |
-6.2 |
6.5 |
-6.9 |
2.0 |
-4.0 |
-5.9 |
-3.7 |
-9.0 |
-8.8 |
-6.0 |
-13.9 |
-7.3 |
|
credit |
2,682.5 |
2,763.2 |
232.8 |
238.9 |
229.0 |
237.3 |
234.9 |
231.4 |
236.6 |
234.3 |
232.4 |
228.6 |
221.0 |
206.0 |
|
debit |
2,646.2 |
2,826.4 |
239.0 |
232.4 |
235.9 |
235.3 |
238.9 |
237.3 |
240.3 |
243.3 |
241.2 |
234.6 |
234.9 |
213.3 |
|
Goods |
56.6 |
-0.6 |
1.6 |
5.5 |
-1.0 |
5.7 |
0.4 |
-0.7 |
-1.2 |
-3.6 |
-3.3 |
1.6 |
-4.4 |
-1.2 |
|
credit (exports) |
1,506.3 |
1,571.9 |
133.1 |
134.4 |
129.4 |
136.0 |
133.0 |
133.8 |
137.9 |
134.8 |
132.7 |
130.5 |
121.6 |
114.6 |
|
debit (imports) |
1,449.7 |
1,572.5 |
131.5 |
129.0 |
130.4 |
130.3 |
132.6 |
134.5 |
139.2 |
138.4 |
136.0 |
128.9 |
125.9 |
115.9 |
|
Services |
53.2 |
50.6 |
5.5 |
5.7 |
4.9 |
4.3 |
3.9 |
3.4 |
4.0 |
4.9 |
2.8 |
3.6 |
3.9 |
3.7 |
|
credit (exports) |
487.8 |
499.5 |
42.1 |
42.0 |
41.8 |
41.9 |
41.8 |
41.3 |
40.6 |
42.8 |
42.4 |
41.9 |
41.5 |
39.3 |
|
debit (imports) |
434.6 |
448.9 |
36.5 |
36.4 |
37.0 |
37.6 |
37.9 |
38.0 |
36.7 |
37.8 |
39.6 |
38.3 |
37.6 |
35.5 |
|
Income |
11.0 |
-18.2 |
-2.0 |
0.1 |
-1.0 |
-0.9 |
-1.6 |
-1.3 |
0.8 |
-3.2 |
-1.4 |
-1.5 |
-4.0 |
-2.2 |
|
credit |
601.9 |
607.8 |
51.7 |
52.5 |
51.4 |
50.1 |
52.7 |
48.3 |
52.1 |
51.8 |
51.3 |
50.4 |
52.1 |
43.6 |
|
debit |
590.9 |
626.1 |
53.6 |
52.4 |
52.4 |
51.0 |
54.3 |
49.6 |
51.3 |
55.0 |
52.8 |
51.9 |
56.0 |
45.7 |
|
Current transfers |
-84.6 |
-94.9 |
-11.3 |
-4.8 |
-9.8 |
-7.1 |
-6.6 |
-7.2 |
-7.3 |
-7.2 |
-6.9 |
-9.7 |
-9.4 |
-7.6 |
|
credit |
86.5 |
83.9 |
6.0 |
9.9 |
6.3 |
9.3 |
7.5 |
8.0 |
5.9 |
4.9 |
6.0 |
5.8 |
5.9 |
8.5 |
|
debit |
171.0 |
178.9 |
17.4 |
14.7 |
16.1 |
16.5 |
14.1 |
15.2 |
13.2 |
12.1 |
12.8 |
15.4 |
15.3 |
16.1 |
|