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 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar. 2009 | Mar. 2010 | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | ||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENT ACCOUNT | -164.0 | -41.7 | -7.8 | -4.4 | -5.1 | 1.7 | -5.0 | -7.5 | -4.5 | -3.9 | -0.7 | -1.7 | -4.5 | 1.7 | |
| Memo: as a percentage of GDP | -1.8 | -0.5 | |||||||||||||
| Credit | 2,602.5 | 2,288.3 | 187.7 | 188.9 | 188.2 | 187.7 | 181.4 | 181.4 | 187.6 | 191.6 | 193.4 | 199.5 | 195.1 | 205.8 | |
| Debit | 2,766.5 | 2,330.1 | 195.5 | 193.3 | 193.3 | 186.0 | 186.5 | 188.9 | 192.1 | 195.5 | 194.2 | 201.1 | 199.6 | 204.1 | |
| Goods | -23.2 | 50.5 | 2.6 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 10.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 5.3 | 3.8 | |
| Credit (exports) | 1,491.2 | 1,327.9 | 105.0 | 105.2 | 107.4 | 109.4 | 102.7 | 104.1 | 107.6 | 110.4 | 113.6 | 117.1 | 119.0 | 126.4 | |
| Debit (imports) | 1,514.4 | 1,277.4 | 102.4 | 101.2 | 102.5 | 99.3 | 100.7 | 102.6 | 103.4 | 105.6 | 108.6 | 114.6 | 113.7 | 122.7 | |
| Services | 35.2 | 34.6 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 4.8 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 4.0 | |
| Credit (exports) | 508.0 | 468.1 | 39.7 | 39.2 | 37.5 | 38.5 | 38.4 | 38.3 | 38.7 | 39.0 | 40.8 | 39.3 | 38.7 | 39.9 | |
| Debit (imports) | 472.7 | 433.5 | 37.0 | 36.8 | 37.2 | 35.9 | 35.2 | 35.9 | 35.1 | 37.1 | 36.0 | 36.2 | 35.2 | 35.9 | |
| Income | -77.5 | -41.1 | -4.9 | -2.7 | -5.1 | -4.2 | -3.0 | -4.8 | -3.0 | -4.8 | -4.0 | -2.2 | -1.5 | -0.9 | |
| Credit | 515.2 | 397.9 | 35.4 | 37.6 | 34.2 | 32.9 | 33.1 | 31.5 | 32.7 | 31.5 | 31.7 | 31.9 | 32.7 | 32.6 | |
| Debit | 592.7 | 439.0 | 40.3 | 40.3 | 39.3 | 37.1 | 36.0 | 36.3 | 35.7 | 36.4 | 35.8 | 34.1 | 34.2 | 33.5 | |
| Current transfers | -98.6 | -85.7 | -8.2 | -8.2 | -5.1 | -6.8 | -7.2 | -6.6 | -9.3 | -5.8 | -6.5 | -5.0 | -11.9 | -5.1 | |
| Credit | 88.1 | 94.5 | 7.6 | 6.9 | 9.1 | 6.9 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 8.6 | 10.6 | 7.3 | 11.1 | 4.6 | 6.9 | |
| Debit | 186.6 | 180.2 | 15.8 | 15.0 | 14.2 | 13.7 | 14.5 | 14.1 | 17.9 | 16.4 | 13.8 | 16.1 | 16.5 | 12.0 | |