Summary

Balances between inward and outward transactions, providing a net flow of transactions between UK residents and the rest of the world and reports on how that flow is funded.

Publications

• UK Balance of Payments, The Pink Book: 2024

  Balances between inward and outward transactions, providing a net flow of transactions between UK residents and the rest of the world and reports on how that flow is funded.

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.

Methodology

• Balance of payments QMI

  Quality and methodology information for balance of payments (BoP) statistics, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used, and data uses and users.

Contact details

Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   31 July 2024 9:30am

   Reason for change

   The UK National Accounts, The Blue Book 2024 scheduled for 31 July 2024 has now been moved to the more usual timetable of 31 October 2024 to allow us further time to update the base year from 2019 to 2022 and assure the quality of this granular data. As a result, The UK National Accounts, The Blue Book 2024 and UK Balance of Payments, The Pink Book: 2024 will now be published on 31 October 2024 rather than 31 July 2024. This means Blue Book 2024 consistent data will be included for the first time in the GDP quarterly national accounts, UK: April to June 2024 30 September 2024 publication. Additionally, a new publication, which focuses on Blue Book aggregates up to the end of 2022 will be published at 07:00 on 7th August 2024. The revision period for the June 2024 quarterly national accounts will now be for Quarter 1 2024 only, in line with our standard National Accounts revisions policy.

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