Euro area monthly balance of payments: October 2025

  • Current account recorded €26 billion surplus in October 2025, up from €24 billion in previous month

Published on the 19th of December 2025

  • Current account surplus amounted to €313 billion (2.0% of euro area GDP) in the 12 months to October 2025, down from €419 billion (2.8%) one year earlier
  • In financial account, euro area residents’ net acquisitions of non-euro area portfolio investment securities totalled €829 billion and non-residents’ net acquisitions of euro area portfolio investment securities totalled €780 billion in the 12 months to October 2025
     

Updated on the 19th of December 2025