Quarterly current account data for EU Member States, expressed in million units of national currency. The dataset covers transactions in goods, services, primary income, and secondary income between residents and non-residents, forming part of the Balance of Payments. Eurostat compiles the data based on reports from EU Member States following the IMF's Sixth Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).
Use Cases
- Modeling a country's external sector performance based on quarterly credit, debit, and balance flows.
- Analyzing trends in trade in goods and services using the reported transaction categories.
- Forecasting Balance of Payments components using the standardized BPM6 methodology.
Strengths
- Data follows the standardized IMF BPM6 methodology, ensuring international comparability.
- Covers multiple transaction components: goods, services, primary income, and secondary income.
- Reported by EU Member States to Eurostat, providing an authoritative source for the region.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Eurostat
- Collection Method
- Compiled from Balance of Payments data reported by EU Member States.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-08 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- European Union Member States