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BoP Current Account Balance SA £m
£ -16,895 m
2017 Q1
- Release date:
- 30 June 2017
- Next release:
- 29 September 2017
UK Balance of Payments, The Pink Book: 2016
What's in the bulletin?
- The deterioration in the current account balance in recent years, leading to a record deficit of 5.4% as a percentage of nominal GDP in 2015, was largely due to UK earnings on assets overseas falling relative to the earnings of foreign investors in the UK.
- In 2015, the UK recorded the largest current account deficit as a percentage of GDP among the G7 economies.
- UK exports grew faster than world exports in 2015, for the first time since 2006. Within this the UK has seen increased trade activity in goods with non-EU countries, with their share exceeding that of EU countries in the last four years.
Time series related to Balance of payments
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£ -16,895 m 2017 Q1
- Release date:
- 30 June 2017
- Next release:
- 29 September 2017
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-3.4 2017 Q1
- Release date:
- 30 June 2017
- Next release:
- 29 September 2017
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-1.8 2017 Q1
- Release date:
- 30 June 2017
- Next release:
- 29 September 2017
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-0.5 2017 Q1
- Release date:
- 30 June 2017
- Next release:
- 29 September 2017
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-1.1 2017 Q1
- Release date:
- 30 June 2017
- Next release:
- 29 September 2017
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£ 414,974 m 2017 Q1
- Release date:
- 30 June 2017
- Next release:
- 29 September 2017
Datasets related to Balance of payments
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United Kingdom Balance of Payments - The Pink Book time series dataset
Annual time series data for Balance of Payments.
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Balance of Payments time series dataset
Summary of balance of payments accounts including the current account, capital transfers, transactions and levels in UK external assets and liabilities.
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Balance of Payments
Summary of balance of payments accounts including the current account, capital transfers, transactions and levels in UK external assets and liabilities.
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Trade in goods MRETS (all BOP - EU2013): time series dataset
UK trade time series data including measures of exports and imports by area and commodity, volume and price indices and trade with selected countries.
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Publication tables, UK trade
Trade in goods and services.
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Publication Tables, UK Trade in goods, CPA (08)
Additional information for UK Trade in Goods by CPA (08).
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Related bulletins
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UK Balance of Payments, The Pink Book: 2016
Balances between inward and outward transactions, providing a net flow of transactions between UK residents and the rest of the world and reports on how that flow is funded.
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Balance of payments: Jan to Mar 2017
Trade in goods and services, income, current and capital transfers, transactions in UK external assets and liabilities, and levels of identified assets and liabilities.
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UK trade: July 2017
Total value of UK imports and exports of goods together with indices of volume and price, including an early monthly estimate of the value of trade in services
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UK Trade in Goods by Classification of Product by Activity CPA(08): Quarter 2 (April to June) 2015
The value of UK exports and imports of goods grouped by industry. Goods are attributed to the industry of which they are the principal products.
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International trade in services, UK: 2015
Product, industry and geographic breakdowns of imports and exports of services, excluding travel, transport and banking sectors.
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Foreign direct investment involving UK companies: 2015
Investment flows, positions (stocks) and earnings, inward (to the UK from abroad) and outward (by UK companies abroad) by country, component and industry.
Articles
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National Accounts articles: Detailed assessment of changes to balance of payments annual estimates, 1997 to 2015
Forthcoming changes and their indicative impact on main balance of payments and international investment position (IIP) estimates, to be introduced when revised figures for the UK National Accounts and Balance of Payments, consistent with Blue Book 2017 and Pink Book 2017, are published on 29 September 2017.
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Short-term indicators economic commentary: Jan 2017
A summary of the latest economic data released on 11 January.
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