European Union and Euro Area Balance of Payments - Quarterly Data (BPM6)

Eurostat provides quarterly balance of payments data for the European Union and the euro area, compiled according to the BPM6 standard. The dataset was last updated on April 15, 2026, and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It covers international economic transactions between residents and non-residents.

Use Cases

• Analyze trade deficits or surpluses based on quarterly current account data
• Model capital flows and financial account dynamics based on the BPM6 framework
• Forecast exchange rate pressures based on balance of payments trends
• Assess the economic integration of the euro area based on cross-border transaction data

Strengths

• Data is provided by Eurostat, the official statistical office of the European Union.
• The dataset follows the standardized BPM6 (Balance of Payments Manual, 6th edition) methodology.
• It is available in multiple machine-readable formats including TSV, CSV, and XML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Eurostat

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 00:00:00

Geography

European Union and euro area