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 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr. 07 | Apr. 08 | May | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | ||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENT ACCOUNT | 10.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 7.3 | 4.7 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 0.9 | -7.2 | -7.9 | 7.5 | -13.2 | -0.3 | |
| credit | 2,488.1 | 2,701.5 | 215.1 | 222.2 | 222.9 | 225.5 | 227.1 | 225.2 | 224.3 | 220.3 | 225.6 | 236.8 | 221.7 | 234.8 | |
| debit | 2,477.8 | 2,701.3 | 214.4 | 214.8 | 218.2 | 222.7 | 224.9 | 222.7 | 223.4 | 227.5 | 233.6 | 229.2 | 234.8 | 235.1 | |
| Goods | 37.5 | 43.2 | 4.7 | 7.6 | 4.9 | 6.4 | 4.3 | 5.7 | 3.8 | -3.4 | 1.7 | 4.5 | -2.9 | 5.9 | |
| credit (exports) | 1,436.0 | 1,542.2 | 122.2 | 126.6 | 126.5 | 129.0 | 128.9 | 128.3 | 128.0 | 124.4 | 131.4 | 133.7 | 127.7 | 135.6 | |
| debit (imports) | 1,398.5 | 1,498.9 | 117.5 | 119.0 | 121.6 | 122.6 | 124.5 | 122.7 | 124.2 | 127.8 | 129.6 | 129.2 | 130.6 | 129.7 | |
| Services | 45.2 | 51.8 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 6.0 | 4.3 | 3.3 | |
| credit (exports) | 455.7 | 498.9 | 39.6 | 40.9 | 41.0 | 42.3 | 42.4 | 41.7 | 42.9 | 42.6 | 40.8 | 41.7 | 41.5 | 41.6 | |
| debit (imports) | 410.5 | 447.1 | 36.7 | 37.2 | 36.9 | 37.6 | 37.1 | 37.6 | 38.0 | 38.9 | 36.0 | 35.8 | 37.1 | 38.2 | |
| Income | 7.7 | -5.2 | -1.2 | 0.7 | 2.4 | -0.4 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 0.1 | -0.1 | -4.1 | 1.1 | -3.9 | -2.1 | |
| credit | 508.2 | 569.4 | 45.4 | 47.3 | 48.0 | 47.1 | 48.9 | 48.3 | 47.5 | 44.5 | 47.6 | 50.2 | 46.8 | 47.8 | |
| debit | 500.5 | 574.6 | 46.6 | 46.5 | 45.5 | 47.5 | 48.6 | 46.4 | 47.4 | 44.6 | 51.7 | 49.1 | 50.6 | 49.8 | |
| Current transfers | -80.1 | -89.7 | -5.8 | -4.7 | -6.7 | -8.0 | -7.7 | -9.0 | -7.8 | -7.4 | -10.5 | -4.0 | -10.8 | -7.4 | |
| credit | 88.1 | 91.0 | 7.9 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 5.9 | 8.8 | 5.8 | 11.1 | 5.7 | 9.9 | |
| debit | 168.2 | 180.7 | 13.6 | 12.1 | 14.1 | 15.0 | 14.6 | 15.9 | 13.7 | 16.2 | 16.2 | 15.1 | 16.5 | 17.4 | |