Table 1: Current account of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions, seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | 2005 | 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 05 | May 06 | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | ||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENT ACCOUNT | 28.8 | -47.6 | 1.0 | -2.0 | -5.4 | -1.8 | -7.1 | -11.4 | -3.0 | -1.0 | -4.7 | -4.9 | 0.9 | -8.2 | |
| credit | 1,891.9 | 2,138.2 | 164.8 | 169.4 | 171.2 | 172.9 | 171.3 | 179.6 | 181.0 | 177.2 | 193.7 | 183.5 | 183.0 | 190.8 | |
| debit | 1,863.1 | 2,185.8 | 163.7 | 171.4 | 176.5 | 174.7 | 178.4 | 191.0 | 184.0 | 178.2 | 198.4 | 188.4 | 182.2 | 198.9 | |
| Goods | 80.7 | 26.2 | 6.9 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 6.0 | 0.1 | 2.6 | 1.6 | -0.3 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 1.5 | -0.5 | |
| credit (exports) | 1,148.4 | 1,288.1 | 99.9 | 102.1 | 103.9 | 106.5 | 102.3 | 106.5 | 108.5 | 109.0 | 112.5 | 112.1 | 113.8 | 111.0 | |
| debit (imports) | 1,067.7 | 1,261.9 | 93.0 | 98.8 | 102.5 | 100.5 | 102.2 | 103.9 | 106.9 | 109.3 | 111.2 | 109.7 | 112.4 | 111.5 | |
| Services | 30.4 | 38.0 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 2.3 | |
| credit (exports) | 371.7 | 413.4 | 32.4 | 33.7 | 33.5 | 33.6 | 34.3 | 35.8 | 34.3 | 35.6 | 36.2 | 34.0 | 34.7 | 35.3 | |
| debit (imports) | 341.3 | 375.4 | 29.6 | 30.9 | 31.1 | 30.9 | 31.1 | 31.6 | 30.7 | 32.0 | 32.3 | 31.0 | 31.3 | 33.0 | |
| Income | -22.1 | -44.3 | -3.8 | -3.7 | -3.2 | -3.8 | -5.4 | -12.3 | -2.0 | 0.2 | -3.8 | -3.7 | 2.0 | -4.7 | |
| credit | 287.8 | 348.7 | 25.4 | 26.6 | 27.0 | 26.7 | 27.8 | 30.2 | 30.1 | 29.4 | 28.1 | 31.8 | 28.1 | 37.5 | |
| debit | 309.9 | 393.0 | 29.2 | 30.3 | 30.1 | 30.6 | 33.2 | 42.5 | 32.2 | 29.2 | 31.9 | 35.4 | 26.1 | 42.2 | |
| Current transfers | -60.2 | -67.5 | -4.8 | -4.4 | -6.0 | -6.7 | -5.0 | -5.9 | -6.3 | -4.5 | -6.1 | -6.7 | -6.0 | -5.2 | |
| credit | 84.0 | 88.0 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 6.1 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 7.9 | 3.2 | 16.9 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 7.0 | |
| debit | 144.2 | 155.5 | 11.9 | 11.4 | 12.8 | 12.8 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 14.2 | 7.7 | 23.0 | 12.3 | 12.4 | 12.2 | |