Balance of payments
Background information
Balance of payments statistics:
- summarise all economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world
- provide harmonised information on international transactions which are part of the current (goods, services, income, current transfers) and capital account, and the financial account
Information in the database
Data in this section are expressed in current prices. Monthly and quarterly data are provided for the euro area, the European Union and its members.
Please note that Eurostat and the European Central Bank (ECB) share responsibility for the compilation of balance of payments:
- Eurostat focuses on quarterly and annual aggregates for the EU and its EU members
- the ECB is responsible for compiling and disseminating the euro area monthly and quarterly statistics