Euro area monthly balance of payments: April 2025

  • Current account recorded €20 billion surplus in April 2025, down from €51 billion in previous month
  • Current account surplus amounted to €419 billion (2.8% of euro area GDP) in the 12 months to April 2025, up from €339 billion (2.3%) one year earlier
  • In financial account, euro area residents’ net acquisitions of non-euro area portfolio investment securities totalled €690 billion and non-residents’ net acquisitions of euro area portfolio investment securities also totalled €690 billion in the 12 months to April 2025

Published on the 18th of June 2025

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Source : ECB

Updated on the 18th of June 2025