Balance of payments and international investment position: Exceptional revisions for the years 2023 to 2025
Date of change:Releases:
- Balance of payments and international investment position 2025, 1st quarter
- Balance of payments and international investment position 2025, April, data revisions
Description of the revision
The data of statistics on balance of payments and international investment position released on 18 June 2025 include exceptional revisions related to the value of exports and imports of goods and services for the years 2023 to 2025. Revisions to data include both removals of and additions to exports and imports, for which reason net exports of goods and services were revised by around EUR -0.6 billion in the statistical reference year 2024.
New data contents have been adopted in international trade in goods, as a result of which the level of goods exports decreased by around EUR 0.8 billion starting from 2023.
For the statistical reference year 2024, data on exports of goods have been revised as the income and expense structures of enterprises' financial statement data became revised. In addition, the data on goods exports and imports have included normal revisions to preliminary data.
Starting from the statistical reference year 2024, a new method has been adopted in the compilation of data on international trade in services, where the sample survey was replaced by total data. Due to the change, the coverage of the statistics grows by around two per cent on the annual level in exports and imports of services. This means a revision of around EUR 0.7 billion in exports and imports of services in the statistical reference year 2024.