"Figure 2: The largest revisions to the current account balance are caused by improvements to the trade balance","" "","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Trade Total","Primary Income total","Secondary Income Total","Total Revision" "1997","0.129","-0.029","-0.113","-0.013" "1998","0.629","-0.037","-0.132","0.460" "1999","0.400","-0.031","-0.140","0.229" "2000","1.723","-0.030","-0.167","1.526" "2001","2.042","-0.034","-0.174","1.834" "2002","2.619","-0.050","-0.210","2.359" "2003","2.258","-0.063","-0.251","1.944" "2004","-0.028","-0.078","-0.266","-0.372" "2005","1.486","-0.109","-0.305","1.072" "2006","4.067","-0.141","-0.332","3.594" "2007","4.341","-0.157","-0.358","3.826" "2008","4.797","-0.140","-0.355","4.302" "2009","3.476","-0.009","-0.418","3.049" "2010","3.124","0.051","-0.351","2.824" "2011","3.455","0.078","-0.570","2.963" "2012","5.524","0.014","-0.448","5.090" "2013","6.285","0.033","-0.460","5.858" "2014","3.714","-0.193","-0.549","2.972" "2015","0.526","-0.859","-0.538","-0.871" "2016","-1.436","1.477","-1.243","-1.202"