Table 1: Annual balance of payments and international investment position of the euro area (revised data)
(EUR billions unless otherwise indicated; outstanding amounts at end of period, transactions during period)
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of periodoutstandingamounts | Transactions1) | Other changes | End of periodoutstandingamounts | Transactions1) | Other changes | End of period outstandingamounts | |||||||||
| as % ofprevious endperiodoutstandingamounts | as % ofprevious endperiodoutstandingamounts | as % of GDP | |||||||||||||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 1 ) In this table, contrary to the balance of payments sign convention, a positive (negative) number indicates an increase (decrease) of euro area assets. | |||||||||||||||
| Financial account balance/Net international investment position | -781.2 | 21.1 | - | -64.7 | -824.8 | -37.4 | - | 51.2 | -811.1 | -10.1 | |||||
| Direct investment | 90.7 | 64.2 | - | -45.2 | 109.7 | 202.3 | - | 15.8 | 327.8 | 4.1 | |||||
| Abroad | 2171.1 | 154.8 | 7.1 | 12.6 | 2338.5 | 294.0 | 12.6 | 79.9 | 2712.4 | 33.9 | |||||
| Equity/reinvested earnings | 1728.7 | 164.9 | 9.5 | 5.7 | 1899.2 | 234.5 | 12.3 | 53.0 | 2186.8 | 27.3 | |||||
| Other capital | 442.4 | -10.1 | -2.3 | 7.0 | 439.3 | 59.5 | 13.5 | 26.9 | 525.6 | 6.6 | |||||
| In the euro area | 2080.3 | 90.6 | 4.4 | 57.8 | 2228.8 | 91.7 | 4.1 | 64.1 | 2384.6 | 29.8 | |||||
| Equity/reinvested earnings | 1508.6 | 94.1 | 6.2 | 57.0 | 1659.7 | 59.8 | 3.6 | 56.8 | 1776.3 | 22.2 | |||||
| Other capital | 571.8 | -3.5 | -0.6 | 0.8 | 569.1 | 31.9 | 5.6 | 7.3 | 608.3 | 7.6 | |||||
| Portfolio investment | -919.3 | -68.2 | - | -13.6 | -1001.2 | -156.9 | - | 9.4 | -1148.7 | -14.4 | |||||
| Assets | 2659.0 | 342.3 | 12.9 | 34.6 | 3035.8 | 406.1 | 13.4 | 431.9 | 3873.8 | 48.4 | |||||
| Equity securities | 1093.2 | 106.6 | 9.8 | 53.0 | 1252.9 | 134.6 | 10.7 | 345.5 | 1733.0 | 21.7 | |||||
| Debt securities | 1565.8 | 235.7 | 15.1 | -18.5 | 1783.0 | 271.4 | 15.2 | 86.4 | 2140.8 | 26.8 | |||||
| Bonds and notes | 1324.1 | 177.3 | 13.4 | -5.3 | 1496.0 | 257.2 | 17.2 | 72.8 | 1826.1 | 22.8 | |||||
| Money market instruments | 241.7 | 58.4 | 24.2 | -13.1 | 286.9 | 14.2 | 4.9 | 13.6 | 314.7 | 3.9 | |||||
| Liabilities | 3578.3 | 410.6 | 11.5 | 48.2 | 4037.0 | 563.0 | 13.9 | 422.5 | 5022.5 | 62.8 | |||||
| Equity securities | 1570.7 | 123.9 | 7.9 | 61.8 | 1756.4 | 282.8 | 16.1 | 389.3 | 2428.5 | 30.4 | |||||
| Debt securities | 2007.6 | 286.6 | 14.3 | -13.6 | 2280.6 | 280.2 | 12.3 | 33.2 | 2594.0 | 32.4 | |||||
| Bonds and notes | 1759.6 | 272.1 | 15.5 | 13.7 | 2045.4 | 242.5 | 11.9 | -11.7 | 2276.2 | 28.5 | |||||
| Money market instruments | 248.0 | 14.5 | 5.9 | -27.3 | 235.2 | 37.7 | 16.0 | 44.9 | 317.7 | 4.0 | |||||
| Financial derivatives | -7.5 | 6.6 | - | -14.0 | -14.9 | 10.7 | - | -10.2 | -14.4 | -0.2 | |||||
| Other investment | -251.8 | 30.9 | - | 21.4 | -199.5 | -75.5 | - | -21.0 | -296.0 | -3.7 | |||||
| Assets | 2673.4 | 314.4 | 11.8 | -41.6 | 2946.2 | 569.6 | 19.3 | 155.6 | 3671.4 | 45.9 | |||||
| Eurosystem | 5.0 | 0.2 | 3.4 | -0.6 | 4.6 | 0.6 | 13.0 | -0.2 | 5.0 | 0.1 | |||||
| General government | 101.1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 104.6 | -5.2 | -5.0 | 2.4 | 101.8 | 1.3 | |||||
| MFIs excluding Eurosystem | 1778.2 | 261.7 | 14.7 | -37.1 | 2002.8 | 397.7 | 19.9 | 118.0 | 2518.5 | 31.5 | |||||
| Other sectors | 789.0 | 50.9 | 6.5 | -5.8 | 834.1 | 176.5 | 21.2 | 35.4 | 1046.0 | 13.1 | |||||
| Liabilities | 2925.2 | 283.5 | 9.7 | -63.0 | 3145.7 | 645.1 | 20.5 | 176.6 | 3967.3 | 49.6 | |||||
| Eurosystem | 66.2 | 7.7 | 11.7 | 0.8 | 74.7 | 6.7 | 9.0 | 1.0 | 82.4 | 1.0 | |||||
| General government | 45.9 | -3.6 | -7.8 | 3.2 | 45.5 | -2.4 | -5.4 | 3.1 | 46.2 | 0.6 | |||||
| MFIs excluding Eurosystem | 2274.0 | 244.9 | 10.8 | -53.3 | 2465.6 | 479.4 | 19.4 | 153.3 | 3098.3 | 38.7 | |||||
| Other sectors | 539.1 | 34.4 | 6.4 | -13.7 | 559.8 | 161.5 | 28.8 | 19.1 | 740.4 | 9.3 | |||||
| Reserve assets | 306.7 | -12.4 | -4.0 | -13.3 | 281.0 | -18.0 | -6.4 | 57.2 | 320.1 | 4.0 | |||||