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Relative importance of payment instruments: 2. Direct debits

(percentage of total number of national transactions)

This table contains a restricted set of payment statistics covering payments by instruments of non-MFIs in the euro area. The data refer to the percentage of transactions with each instrument in comparison with the total number of transactions in each country for the specified reference year.

	Euro area¹⁾	BE	DE	EE	IE	GR	ES	FR	IT	CY	LU	MT	NL	AT	PT	SI	SK	FI
Legend: - related data do not exist or are subject to statistical confidentiality · data are not yet available Italics Country data are shown in grey and italics for periods prior to a country's entry into the euro area
Notes: The euro area total covers the EU Member States that had adopted the euro at the time to which the statistics relate. Greek data are included in euro area aggregates as of 2001, Slovenian data as of 2007, Cypriot and Maltese data as of 2008, Slovakian data as of 2009 and Estonian data are included as of 2011.
2001	26.49	11.47	38.61	7.33	17.12	8.18	68.85	16.69	11.99	13.06	8.59	-	27.89	28.56	11.11	-	-	5.24
2002	24.95	9.91	37.46	7.65	12.96	12.80	42.43	16.36	12.83	12.77	8.38	1.79	27.78	34.28	10.53	-	-	5.23
2003	26.88	11.53	40.64	8.04	12.86	10.66	41.30	17.19	12.82	13.48	9.19	1.90	27.93	37.07	11.41	-	1.56	5.55
2004	28.37	11.76	41.44	7.68	13.48	10.53	46.75	18.07	13.24	15.08	9.37	2.26	28.12	34.79	11.10	12.35	1.65	5.64
2005	28.47	11.57	41.92	7.51	16.28	10.86	46.34	17.67	13.17	14.81	9.63	2.72	26.76	35.22	11.72	12.15	11.42	5.26
2006	28.81	11.69	42.78	7.14	17.41	11.18	44.66	18.32	13.31	15.41	10.09	3.08	26.58	35.63	11.69	12.57	11.20	4.66
2007	29.99	11.43	49.38	6.82	16.94	11.10	43.36	18.82	13.53	15.30	10.68	2.96	25.98	34.95	12.50	12.89	16.28	4.48
2008	29.89	11.28	49.40	6.70	16.02	7.13	42.87	19.02	14.52	9.51	3.23	3.76	25.43	37.11	14.26	12.91	16.98	4.50
2009	30.20	11.37	49.42	6.88	16.03	7.74	43.75	19.88	14.55	8.49	2.75	4.08	25.37	37.98	14.24	14.37	17.03	4.78
2010	29.96	10.31	50.17	6.67	15.70	9.20	42.21	20.00	14.81	8.61	2.23	3.97	24.16	37.19	13.77	14.94	15.41	4.23
2011	28.93	10.58	48.73	6.02	15.67	11.42	39.94	20.15	14.44	8.22	1.80	4.18	23.73	36.86	13.56	15.14	14.52	3.75

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