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Households and non-financial corporations in the euro area: second quarter of 2023


5 October 2023

  • Households’ financial investment increased at lower annual rate of 2.1% in second quarter of 2023, after 2.4% in previous quarter
  • Non-financial corporations’ financing grew at lower annual rate of 0.9%, after 1.4%
  • Non-financial corporations’ gross operating surplus increased at lower annual rate of 5.3%, after 9.4%

Chart 1

Household financing and financial and non-financial investment

(Annual growth rates)

Sources: ECB and Eurostat.

Data for household financing and financial and non-financial investment

Chart 2

NFC gross-operating surplus, non-financial investment and financing

(annual growth rates)

Source: ECB and Eurostat

Data for NFC gross-operating surplus, non-financial investment and financing

Households

Household gross disposable income increased in the second quarter of 2023 at a lower annual rate of 8.1% (after 9.1% in the first quarter of 2023), as the main components increased at lower rates: compensation of employees grew at a rate of 7.1% (after 7.4%), and gross operating surplus and mixed income of the self-employed grew at a rate of 6.9% (after 8.7%). Household consumption expenditure increased at a lower rate of 6.6%, after 9.7%.

Household gross saving rate in the second quarter of 2023 increased to 13.7%, compared with 13.4% in the previous quarter.

Household gross non-financial investment (which refers mainly to housing) increased at a lower annual rate of 2.5%, after 7.0% in the previous quarter. Loans to households, the main component of household financing, increased at a lower rate of 1.8% (after 2.9%).

Household financial investment increased at a lower annual rate of 2.1% in the second quarter of 2023, after 2.4% in the previous quarter. Among its components, currency and deposits grew at a lower rate of 1.6% (after 2.3%), while investment in debt securities grew at a higher rate of 56.8% (after 44.6%). Investments in shares and other equity as well as in life insurance grew at lower rates (1.3% after 1.5%, and 0.5% after 0.8% respectively). Investments in pension schemes grew at an unchanged rate (2.2%).

Household net worth increased at an annual rate of 4.3% in the second quarter of 2023, after 2.7% in the previous quarter. The acceleration was mainly due to valuation gains on financial assets, while housing wealth, the main component of non-financial assets, grew at a lower rate of 4.4%, after 5.5%. The household debt-to-income ratio decreased to 89.5% in the second quarter of 2023 from 95.0% in the second quarter of 2022.

Non-financial corporations

Net value added by NFCs increased at a lower annual rate of 7.1% in the second quarter of 2023, after 10.0% in the previous quarter. Gross operating surplus grew, at a lower rate of 5.3% after 9.4%, while net property income (defined in this context as property income receivable minus interest and rent payable) decreased, at a lower rate (-6.0% after -20.4%). As a result gross entrepreneurial income (broadly equivalent to cash flow) increased at a lower rate of 2.3% (after 6.1%).[1]

NFCs’ gross non-financial investment increased at an annual rate of 17.3%, compared to a negative rate (-1.7%) in the previous quarter. This acceleration was due to a higher growth rate of the net acquisition of other non-financial assets, such as non-produced assets, while gross-fixed capital formation decelerated (6.5%, after 11.3%).[2] NFCs’ financial investment grew at a lower annual rate of 1.7%, after 2.4% in the previous quarter. NFCs reduced currency and deposits (-1.1%, after 0.8%), and decelerated loans granted (3.0% after 3.4%) as well investments in shares and other equity (0.8% after 1.3%). Finally, investment in debt securities grew at a lower rate (23.7%, after 24.2%).

Financing of NFCs increased at a lower annual rate of 0.9% (after 1.4%), reflecting lower growth rates of financing via loans (2.4%, after 3.4%), shares and other equity (0.0%, after 0.5%) and trade credits (1.8%, after 2.9%), while financing via debt securities grew (0.7%, after 0.0%). NFCs’ debt-to-GDP ratio (consolidated measure) decreased to 69.2% in the second quarter of 2023, from 73.8% in the same quarter of the previous year; the non-consolidated, wider debt measure decreased to 129.0% from 136.6%.

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