All publications related to balance of payments

Indicative estimates of the size and direction of revisions to foreign direct investment statistics within the balance of payments.

A brief summary of key concepts, components and trends in the UK’s current account, and how it relates to the national accounts.

UK foreign direct invetsment analysis: ultimate controlling parent concept and and contributions of FDI businesses to the UK economy.

Comparing aspects of UK foreign direct investment with those of other countries.

Presenting the International Monetary Fund's Task Force on Special Purpose Entities’ definition of special purpose entities (SPEs), along with experimental statistics that attempt to classify how much UK foreign direct investment is accounted for by SPEs

Breakdown of UK trade in services by industry, country and service type on a balance of payments basis using a new experimental dataset.

Update to experimental trade by industry, country and commodity dataset with additional data for 2017.

Use our interactive map to understand the UK's investment relationships with countries around the world since 1999.

A summary of our transformation of UK trade statistics, highlighting the delivery of new detail and analysis, and the focus of ongoing developments.

The UK trade in goods deficit in real terms widened from £14.7 billion in 1998 to £130.7 billion in 2017. This article uses new country-by-commodity data to explore which countries and commodities can explain the widening of the trade in goods deficit.