Balance of payments of the EU institutions - annual data (BPM6) - bop_euins6_a

Data - Eurostat

Info

Last observation: 2025 (N = 163418)

First observation: 1987 (N = 1764)

Last data update: 14 aoû 2026, 19:58. Last compile: 17 aoû 2026, 23:33

Structure

freq

currency

bop_item

sector10

sectpart

stk_flow

partner

geo

European Institutions

Current Account Balance

bop_euins6_a |>
  filter(bop_item == "CA",
         stk_flow == "BAL",
         partner == "WORLD",
         sector10 == "S1",
         sectpart == "S1",
         geo %in% c("COMM", "EIB", "EDF")) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  mutate(values = values/1e9) |>
  left_join(colors, by = c("Geo" = "country")) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values, color = color)) +
  scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  theme_minimal() +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(1985, 2100, 5), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  theme(legend.position = c(0.25, 0.15),
        legend.title = element_blank()) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Current account balance (Bn€)") +
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0, linetype = "dashed", color = "black")

European Commission: World vs. Extra-EU

bop_euins6_a |>
  filter(geo == "COMM",
         bop_item == "CA",
         stk_flow == "BAL",
         partner %in% c("WORLD", "EXT_EU27_2020"),
         sector10 == "S1",
         sectpart == "S1") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  mutate(values = values/1e9) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values, color = Partner)) +
  theme_minimal() +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(1985, 2100, 5), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  theme(legend.position = c(0.3, 0.15),
        legend.title = element_blank()) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Current account balance (Bn€)") +
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0, linetype = "dashed", color = "black")

Latest Year by Item

latest_a <- bop_euins6_a |>
  filter(bop_item == "CA",
         stk_flow == "BAL",
         partner == "WORLD",
         geo == "COMM",
         !is.na(values)) |>
  summarise(m = max(time)) |>
  pull(m)

bop_euins6_a |>
  filter(geo %in% c("COMM", "EIB", "EDF"),
         stk_flow == "BAL",
         partner == "WORLD",
         sector10 == "S1",
         sectpart == "S1",
         bop_item %in% c("CA", "KA", "FA", "G", "S", "GS", "IN1", "IN2", "D1", "D2", "D4"),
         time == latest_a) |>
  mutate(values = values/1e9) |>
  select(bop_item, Bop_item, Geo, values) |>
  spread(Geo, values) |>
  print_table_conditional()

bop_item	Bop_item	European Commission	European Development Fund	European Investment Bank (EIB)
CA	Current account	30.9853325	0.6426877	3.0866846
D1	Primary income: compensation of employees	-6.7032922	NA	-0.8316334
D2	Primary income: taxes on production and imports	33.0170211	NA	NA
D4	Property income	-6.3459092	NA	3.7013140
G	Goods	-0.1390663	NA	-0.1156010
GS	Goods and services	-13.8650520	NA	0.2015120
IN1	Primary income	-37.0188633	NA	2.8696806
IN2	Secondary income	81.8692477	0.6426877	0.0154920
KA	Capital account	-63.5481411	-0.8255278	NA
S	Services	-13.7259857	NA	0.3171130