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8mo ago

Destatis: Integrated Municipal Debt Rose 6.3% in 2024 to €343.8 Billion

The statistical office attributes the jump to record deficits in municipal core and extra budgets.

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Die kommunalen Schulden bei Banken oder Versicherungen haben Ende 2024 bei 4448 Euro pro Kopf gelegen. Das waren 6,3 Prozent mehr als im Vorjahr, wie das Statistische Bundesamt in Wiesbaden auf Grundlage einer Modellrechnung mitteilte.
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Overview

  • The rise compares with a 3.0% increase in 2023, bringing the per‑capita figure to €4,448.
  • Debts in municipal core and extra budgets climbed 10.9% and 9.5% respectively, while debts of participations rose 2.4%.
  • Hesse recorded the highest per‑capita burden at €6,291, overtaking Saarland (€6,100) as the Saarlandpakt kept growth muted.
  • North Rhine‑Westphalia saw the largest percentage increase at +9.9%, followed by Schleswig‑Holstein (+8.9%) and Bavaria (+8.0%), both still below the national per‑capita average.
  • Rhineland‑Palatinate’s total fell 10.2% under the PEK‑RP debt‑assumption program, and Destatis underscores that the integrated model counts only non‑public creditors, excludes the city‑states, and is not comparable with EU debt statistics or legal liability.