BoP: current account balance as per cent of GDP

Source dataset: UK Economic Accounts time series (UKEA)

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Correction

8 January 2019

A minor processing error has been identified and corrected in the current account balance as a percentage of GDP data. The error affected 2017 and 2018 quarters up to and including 2018 Q3. The error was due to a processing issue and did not affect the underlying current account balance or GDP estimates or any other outputs within the release.

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8 November 2021

A publication error occurred during the publication of the 2021 Quarter 2 reference table. A number of series were not updated and copied across into the reference tables correctly.

No other series were affected by this processing error.

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10 November 2022

Due to system issues some balance of payments and gross fixed capital formation data within the UK Economic Accounts time series dataset published on the 30th September 2022 were incorrectly populated. This has now been updated with data consistent with Pink and Blue Books 2022.

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Release date:
30 June 2025
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Next release:
30 September 2025

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