UK Balance of Payments, The Pink Book: 2026

Summary

An annual review of cross-border transactions on the UK’s balance of payments, including the current account, financial account, and the international investment stock position.

Publications

• UK Balance of Payments, The Pink Book: 2026

  An annual review of cross-border transactions on the UK's balance of payments, including the current account, financial account, and the international investment stock position.

Data

• 07 Financial account, The Pink Book

  Detailed annual statistics on the financial account including direct, portfolio and other investment summaries and sector analysis, reserve assets for central government and financial derivatives.

• 06 Capital account, The Pink Book

  Detailed annual statistics on the capital account.

• 05 Secondary income, The Pink Book

  Detailed statistics on secondary income.

• 03 Trade in services, The Pink Book

  Detailed annual statistics on trade in services including transport, travel, insurance and pensions, financial, telecommunication and computer, cultural and recreational, and government.

• UK Balance of Payments – The Pink Book time series

  Annual time series data for the UK Balance of Payments.

• 10 Geographical breakdown of the UK international investment position, The Pink Book

  Detailed annual statistics on the geographical breakdown of the UK international investment position including by type of investment, by assets and liabilities and net.

• 08 International investment position, The Pink Book

  Detailed annual statistics on the international investment position including direct, portfolio and other investment balance sheets and sector analysis, reserve assets for central government and financial derivatives.

• 09 Geographical breakdown of the current account, The Pink Book

  Detailed annual statistics on the geographical breakdown of the current account including trade in goods and services, primary and secondary income and transactions with Europe and the US.

• 01 Summary of Balance of Payments, The Pink Book

  A summary of annual balance of payments accounts, international investment position, financial account and investment income and statistics for the current account.

• 04 Primary income, The Pink Book

  Detailed annual statistics on primary income including direct investment, portfolio investment, other investment and sector analysis.

• 02 Trade in goods, The Pink Book

  Detailed annual statistics on trade in goods including summary and adjustments on a balance of payments basis.

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