Summary

Quarterly data for trade in goods and services, income, current and capital transfers, transactions in UK external assets and liabilities, and levels of identified assets and liabilities are detailed within the current account.

Publications

• Balance of Payments, UK: Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) and annual 2015

  A measure of cross-border transactions between the UK and rest of the world. Includes trade, income, capital transfers and foreign assets and liabilities.

• An analysis of the drivers behind the fall in direct investment earnings and their impact on the UK's current account deficit

  The UK current account deficit continued to widen in 2015, marking the fourth consecutive deterioration since 2011.

Data

• Balance of payments – revision triangles

  Quarterly summary information on the size and direction of the revisions made to the data covering a five-year period, UK.

• Balance of payments

  Quarterly summary of balance of payments accounts including the current account, capital transfers, transactions, and levels of UK external assets and liabilities.

• Balance of payments time series

  Quarterly summary of balance of payments accounts including the current account, capital transfers, transactions and levels of UK external assets and liabilities.

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