The reading right now

As of January 2023, Real consumer spending for Germany stood at -0.85%. That is down 4.8 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 0.19%, ranging from a low of -5.93% in January 2020 to a high of 3.94% in January 2022. The current reading sits 1.4 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of 0.51%.

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