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 | 2011 | 2012 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 2011 | Oct. 2012 | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | ||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENT ACCOUNT | -9.3 | 84.3 | 7.3 | 6.4 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 9.1 | 7.7 | 9.9 | 10.4 | 3.7 | 10.9 | 2.4 | 3.9 | |
| Memo: as a percentage of GDP | -0.1 | 0.9 | |||||||||||||
| Credit | 2,924.5 | 3,120.4 | 256.5 | 256.6 | 255.9 | 255.3 | 258.4 | 260.6 | 263.0 | 264.8 | 255.8 | 268.6 | 266.3 | 258.4 | |
| Debit | 2,933.8 | 3,036.1 | 249.3 | 250.1 | 249.9 | 248.8 | 249.3 | 252.8 | 253.1 | 254.5 | 252.1 | 257.7 | 263.9 | 254.5 | |
| Goods | -7.7 | 78.7 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 7.7 | 8.7 | 9.1 | 3.5 | 8.4 | 4.9 | 6.2 | |
| Credit (exports) | 1,738.6 | 1,897.0 | 153.7 | 154.2 | 155.1 | 155.6 | 156.4 | 158.9 | 160.5 | 160.4 | 154.9 | 164.5 | 163.7 | 159.0 | |
| Debit (imports) | 1,746.2 | 1,818.4 | 148.3 | 149.2 | 148.7 | 148.9 | 149.7 | 151.3 | 151.8 | 151.3 | 151.4 | 156.0 | 158.8 | 152.8 | |
| Services | 63.3 | 84.8 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 5.9 | 7.0 | 8.9 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 5.9 | 8.1 | 6.9 | 7.1 | |
| Credit (exports) | 570.0 | 608.3 | 49.1 | 49.9 | 48.7 | 49.9 | 50.3 | 50.9 | 51.4 | 52.5 | 50.1 | 53.1 | 51.3 | 51.2 | |
| Debit (imports) | 506.7 | 523.5 | 42.8 | 43.2 | 42.8 | 42.8 | 41.4 | 43.6 | 44.3 | 45.0 | 44.2 | 45.0 | 44.3 | 44.1 | |
| Income | 40.7 | 31.7 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 0.7 | -0.1 | |
| Credit | 522.5 | 518.5 | 45.4 | 44.5 | 44.0 | 42.1 | 43.3 | 42.3 | 43.2 | 43.8 | 42.5 | 43.0 | 43.6 | 40.8 | |
| Debit | 481.8 | 486.8 | 40.9 | 40.4 | 41.0 | 39.4 | 40.7 | 40.4 | 39.7 | 41.1 | 39.8 | 39.4 | 43.0 | 41.0 | |
| Current transfers | -105.7 | -110.9 | -9.1 | -9.3 | -9.2 | -9.9 | -9.1 | -9.2 | -9.4 | -8.9 | -8.4 | -9.2 | -10.1 | -9.3 | |
| Credit | 93.4 | 96.6 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.4 | |
| Debit | 199.1 | 207.4 | 17.4 | 17.3 | 17.4 | 17.6 | 17.5 | 17.5 | 17.3 | 17.0 | 16.6 | 17.2 | 17.8 | 16.6 | |