Euro area monthly balance of payments: December 2025
Current account recorded €15 billion surplus in December 2025, up from €9 billion in previous month
Current account surplus amounted to €255 billion (1.6% of euro area GDP) in 2025, down from €407 billion (2.7%) in 2024
In financial account, euro area residents’ net acquisitions of non-euro area portfolio investment securities totalled €767 billion and non-residents’ net acquisitions of euro area portfolio investment securities totalled €838 billion in 2025
Published on 19th of February 2026
Chart 1
Euro area current account balance
(EUR billions unless otherwise indicated; working day and seasonally adjusted data)
The current account of the euro area recorded a surplus of €15 billion in December 2025, an increase of €6 billion from the previous month (Chart 1 and Table 1). Surpluses were recorded for goods (€20 billion) and services (€14 billion). Deficits were recorded for secondary income (€16 billion) and primary income (€ 4 billion).
