Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €30.8 billion in November 2023, up €10.8 billion on the previous month’s level. This was primarily caused by the shift into a surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income. Moreover, the surplus in the goods account increased.

Die Leistungsbilanz des Euroraums wies in den vier Quartalen bis zum dritten Quartal 2023 einen Überschuss von 175 Mrd. € (1,2 % des BIP im Euroraum) auf, verglichen mit einem Defizit von 19 Mrd. € (0,1 % des BIP) ein Jahr zuvor.

On 1 January 1999, the euro was introduced as book money. Three years later, people in Germany and eleven other European countries got their hands on euro banknotes and coins for the first time. Today, twenty-five years later, the euro is legal tender in twenty countries and has become an indispensable part of Europeans’ everyday lives.