The figures published by the Federal Statistical Office on Thursday show that the corona pandemic also had an impact on the overall public budget in 2021.
Accordingly, expenditure rose by 5 percent compared to the previous year to 1762.4 billion euros, while revenue increased by 9.4 percent to 1629.3 billion euros.
This results in a cash financing deficit of 133.2 billion euros.
This falls below the financing deficit of 2020, which was 189.2 billion euros, but does not come close to the pre-crisis year 2019, in which a surplus of 45.2 billion euros was recorded.
"The financing deficit of the overall public budget in 2021 is largely explained by the federal government's financing deficit, which has increased slightly again in connection with the costs of the corona pandemic," the office in Wiesbaden states.
The information relates to provisional results of the core and extra budgets of the quarterly cash statistics.
The fact that public spending has increased is due in particular to allocations and grants, which include emergency aid for companies and support payments to hospitals.
The allocations also include special funds that were used, for example, for construction aid during the flood disaster last year.