Table 1a: Quarterly balance of payments of the euro area with a geographical breakdown
(EUR billions, otherwise indicated; transactions in Q3 2004)
| Total | European Union | Canada | Japan | Switzer-land | UnitedStates | Offshorefinancialcentres | Interna-tionalorgani-sations | Othercountries | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Denmark | Sweden | UnitedKingdom | Other EUcountries | EUinsti-tutions | ||||||||||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 1 ) Financial account: inflows (+); outflows (−). Reserve assets: increase (−); decrease (+). | |||||||||||||||
| Current account | 9.9 | 16.9 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 20.6 | 4.9 | -9.9 | 1.3 | -7.5 | 0.3 | 13.7 | - | - | -14.8 | |
| credit | 448.8 | 159.2 | 8.8 | 13.6 | 90.4 | 36.7 | 9.7 | 5.6 | 11.3 | 28.3 | 73.3 | - | - | 171.1 | |
| debit | 438.9 | 142.3 | 8.4 | 12.8 | 69.8 | 31.8 | 19.6 | 4.3 | 18.8 | 28.0 | 59.7 | - | - | 185.9 | |
| Goods | 24.6 | 19.8 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 14.1 | 4.8 | 0.1 | 1.4 | -3.6 | 2.9 | 14.8 | - | - | -10.8 | |
| credit | 280.5 | 93.0 | 6.0 | 9.3 | 48.4 | 29.3 | 0.1 | 3.4 | 8.0 | 14.9 | 40.5 | - | - | 120.6 | |
| as percentage of total | 100.0 | 33.2 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 17.2 | 10.4 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 5.3 | 14.4 | - | - | 43.0 | |
| debit | 255.9 | 73.2 | 5.7 | 8.8 | 34.3 | 24.5 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 11.6 | 12.0 | 25.7 | - | - | 131.4 | |
| as percentage of total | 100.0 | 28.6 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 13.4 | 9.6 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 10.0 | - | - | 51.4 | |
| Services | 8.1 | 8.7 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 8.2 | -1.2 | 1.1 | -0.1 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0.4 | - | - | -3.1 | |
| credit | 94.6 | 35.2 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 25.0 | 4.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 8.4 | 18.2 | - | - | 29.2 | |
| as percentage of total | 100.0 | 37.2 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 26.4 | 4.7 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 8.9 | 19.3 | - | - | 30.9 | |
| debit | 86.5 | 26.5 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 16.8 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 6.9 | 17.9 | - | - | 32.3 | |
| as percentage of total | 100.0 | 30.6 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 19.4 | 6.6 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 8.0 | 20.7 | - | - | 37.4 | |
| Income | -5.1 | -0.4 | 0.0 | -0.2 | -1.8 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -4.5 | -4.0 | -1.2 | - | - | 4.8 | |
| credit | 57.9 | 21.0 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 15.2 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 13.1 | - | - | 18.3 | |
| debit | 63.0 | 21.5 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 17.0 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 5.4 | 7.7 | 14.2 | - | - | 13.5 | |
| of which: investment income | -7.2 | -0.7 | 0.0 | -0.2 | -1.9 | 2.1 | -0.6 | 0.2 | -4.5 | -5.5 | -1.4 | - | - | 4.7 | |
| credit | 54.1 | 19.9 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 14.8 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 12.7 | - | - | 17.7 | |
| debit | 61.3 | 20.5 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 16.8 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 5.4 | 7.6 | 14.0 | - | - | 13.0 | |
| Current transfers | -17.6 | -11.2 | 0.0 | -0.0 | 0.1 | -0.0 | -11.2 | -0.3 | -0.0 | -0.1 | -0.4 | - | - | -5.7 | |
| credit | 15.9 | 10.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 7.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 1.5 | - | - | 3.0 | |
| debit | 33.5 | 21.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 18.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.9 | - | - | 8.6 | |
| Capital account | 4.1 | 4.4 | -0.0 | -0.0 | 0.1 | -0.0 | 4.3 | -0.0 | -0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | - | - | -0.9 | |
| credit | 5.6 | 4.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | - | - | 0.3 | |
| debit | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | - | - | 1.1 | |
| Financial account balance2) | -4.1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Direct investment | 5.3 | 5.1 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 2.9 | -1.3 | 10.6 | 2.7 | -8.2 | 0.0 | -6.6 | |
| Abroad | -12.2 | -5.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | -6.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 2.5 | -1.8 | 7.4 | 3.4 | -13.4 | 0.0 | -4.4 | |
| Equity/reinvested earnings | -22.4 | -6.4 | -0.2 | 0.0 | -5.5 | -0.7 | 0.0 | 2.2 | -1.0 | 5.1 | -4.7 | -13.9 | 0.0 | -3.9 | |
| Other capital | 10.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | -1.3 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.3 | -0.8 | 2.3 | 8.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | -0.5 | |
| In the euro area | 17.5 | 11.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 3.2 | -0.6 | 5.2 | 0.0 | -2.2 | |
| Equity/reinvested earnings | 15.8 | 7.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 7.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 5.7 | 0.0 | -2.5 | |
| Other capital | 1.7 | 3.1 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.3 | -3.4 | -0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
| Portfolio investment | 3.6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Assets | -61.3 | -25.6 | -0.2 | -0.6 | -19.4 | -1.7 | -3.8 | -2.2 | -9.4 | 1.6 | -6.0 | -6.4 | 1.2 | -14.6 | |
| Equity | -5.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | -0.4 | 1.5 | -0.5 | -0.1 | -0.8 | -0.8 | 1.5 | 3.1 | -3.2 | -0.0 | -6.0 | |
| Debt | -55.8 | -26.3 | -0.3 | -0.1 | -20.9 | -1.2 | -3.7 | -1.4 | -8.6 | 0.1 | -9.1 | -3.2 | 1.3 | -8.6 | |
| Bonds and notes | -37.6 | -17.5 | 0.3 | -0.2 | -12.7 | -1.1 | -3.8 | -1.3 | -2.1 | -0.4 | -7.1 | -1.7 | 0.7 | -8.1 | |
| Money market instruments | -18.2 | -8.7 | -0.6 | 0.1 | -8.2 | -0.0 | 0.0 | -0.1 | -6.5 | 0.5 | -1.9 | -1.5 | 0.5 | -0.5 | |
| Liabilities | 64.9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Equity | 38.9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Debt | 26.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Bonds and notes | 33.5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Money market instruments | -7.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Financial derivatives | -4.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Other investment | -11.9 | -44.6 | 2.1 | -3.8 | -46.7 | -1.4 | 5.1 | 0.4 | 12.1 | 7.8 | 4.1 | -9.6 | -4.5 | 22.5 | |
| Assets | -19.9 | -55.2 | -2.6 | -1.6 | -48.0 | -3.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 7.6 | 5.4 | 11.5 | 0.3 | -1.9 | 11.3 | |
| General government | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | -0.6 | 0.0 | -0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -0.1 | 0.4 | |
| MFIs | -25.6 | -45.9 | -3.2 | -0.8 | -38.8 | -3.1 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 6.8 | 4.3 | 6.9 | 0.6 | -1.7 | 2.2 | |
| Other sectors | 5.4 | -9.4 | 0.1 | -0.9 | -8.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | -0.2 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 4.6 | -0.3 | -0.0 | 8.7 | |
| Liabilities | 7.9 | 10.5 | 4.7 | -2.2 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 5.1 | -0.7 | 4.5 | 2.5 | -7.5 | -9.9 | -2.6 | 11.1 | |
| General government | 2.2 | 2.3 | 0.0 | -0.0 | -0.0 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 0.0 | -0.4 | 0.0 | -0.2 | 0.0 | -0.1 | 0.5 | |
| MFIs | 9.8 | 7.9 | 4.4 | -2.7 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 2.3 | -0.8 | 3.7 | 3.1 | -6.3 | -10.5 | -2.5 | 15.2 | |
| Other sectors | -4.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | -1.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.1 | -0.7 | -0.9 | 0.6 | -0.0 | -4.6 | |
| Reserve assets | 3.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Errors and omissions | -9.9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |