Summary information
Study title
IMF Balance of Payments Statistics, 1948-2021
Creator
International Monetary Fund
Study number / PID
4963 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-4963-6 (DOI)
Data access
Open
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Balance of Payments (BOPS) database is a statistical statement containing over 100,000 quarterly and annual time series data that summarise, for a specific period (typically a year or quarter), the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world. It covers:
- all the goods, services, factor income and current transfers an economy receives from or provides to the rest of the world
- capital transfers and changes in an economy's external financial claims and liabilities
Main Topics:
The database covers:
- balance of payments
- economics, international and monetary economics
- international monetary system
- currencies
- monetary economics
- international economics
- foreign investment
- international, foreign and world trade
- exchange rates and foreign exchange
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Afghanistan, Multi-nation, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Channel Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Europe, European Union Countries (1993-), Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany (October 1990-), Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent, Saotome, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (USA), Zambia, Zimbabwe
Time dimension
Time Series
Quarterly and annual. These data are updated monthly.
Analysis unit
Administrative units (geographical/political)
Cross-national
National
Universe
Not availableSampling procedure
Not availableKind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Not availableAccess
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2004
Terms of data access
Effective January 1st 2015, the IMF introduced a new policy whereby access to the IMF online statistics databases became free to all users. As a result of this policy the IMF datasets hosted by the UK Data Service are now freely available to all. Please refer to the IMF’s Special Terms and Conditions Pertaining to the Use of Data.
Related publications
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