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 |
2009 |
2010 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | May 2010 | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | ||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
CURRENT ACCOUNT |
-156.3 |
-43.9 |
-5.1 |
1.7 |
-5.0 |
-7.5 |
-4.8 |
-3.2 |
0.9 |
-1.2 |
-6.4 |
-1.9 |
-5.6 |
-5.8 |
|
Memo: as a percentage of GDP |
-1.7 |
-0.5 |
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Credit |
2,509.2 |
2,329.3 |
188.2 |
187.7 |
181.4 |
181.4 |
185.8 |
190.3 |
192.5 |
202.4 |
197.2 |
206.9 |
200.2 |
215.2 |
|
Debit |
2,665.5 |
2,373.2 |
193.3 |
186.0 |
186.5 |
188.9 |
190.6 |
193.5 |
191.6 |
203.6 |
203.6 |
208.8 |
205.8 |
221.0 |
|
Goods |
-17.6 |
47.6 |
4.9 |
10.0 |
2.0 |
1.5 |
4.3 |
5.3 |
5.5 |
2.1 |
4.3 |
3.9 |
0.6 |
3.1 |
|
Credit (exports) |
1,429.1 |
1,375.8 |
107.4 |
109.4 |
102.7 |
104.1 |
108.1 |
110.7 |
114.0 |
117.2 |
119.1 |
127.2 |
124.4 |
131.6 |
|
Debit (imports) |
1,446.7 |
1,328.2 |
102.5 |
99.3 |
100.7 |
102.6 |
103.8 |
105.4 |
108.4 |
115.1 |
114.8 |
123.3 |
123.8 |
128.5 |
|
Services |
33.6 |
33.5 |
0.3 |
2.6 |
3.1 |
2.4 |
2.5 |
1.5 |
4.8 |
3.1 |
2.8 |
3.3 |
4.0 |
3.1 |
|
Credit (exports) |
500.4 |
472.4 |
37.5 |
38.5 |
38.4 |
38.3 |
38.4 |
38.7 |
40.2 |
40.2 |
39.8 |
40.7 |
40.3 |
41.4 |
|
Debit (imports) |
466.9 |
439.0 |
37.2 |
35.9 |
35.2 |
35.9 |
35.9 |
37.2 |
35.4 |
37.1 |
37.0 |
37.5 |
36.3 |
38.4 |
|
Income |
-70.4 |
-36.4 |
-5.1 |
-4.2 |
-3.0 |
-4.8 |
-2.3 |
-4.4 |
-3.0 |
0.1 |
-0.7 |
-1.6 |
-3.0 |
-4.4 |
|
Credit |
495.2 |
390.4 |
34.2 |
32.9 |
33.1 |
31.5 |
30.8 |
30.3 |
31.0 |
35.1 |
34.2 |
33.1 |
30.2 |
34.0 |
|
Debit |
565.5 |
426.8 |
39.3 |
37.1 |
36.0 |
36.3 |
33.1 |
34.7 |
34.0 |
35.0 |
34.9 |
34.8 |
33.1 |
38.4 |
|
Current transfers |
-101.9 |
-88.6 |
-5.1 |
-6.8 |
-7.2 |
-6.6 |
-9.2 |
-5.6 |
-6.4 |
-6.5 |
-12.9 |
-7.4 |
-7.2 |
-7.6 |
|
Credit |
84.5 |
90.6 |
9.1 |
6.9 |
7.3 |
7.5 |
8.6 |
10.7 |
7.3 |
9.9 |
4.0 |
5.8 |
5.3 |
8.2 |
|
Debit |
186.4 |
179.2 |
14.2 |
13.7 |
14.5 |
14.1 |
17.8 |
16.3 |
13.7 |
16.4 |
16.9 |
13.2 |
12.5 |
15.8 |
|