Balance of Payments Reports
The Balance of Payments Report is issued in early June and analyses individual items of the Czech Republic’s balance of payments in the previous calendar year. It focuses on the current, capital and financial accounts and their main components, and monitors the Czech Republic’s debt and international investment position. Each issue is complemented by thematic articles of an academic nature. Between individual issues of the report, the latest time series are available on the Balance of payments statistics page.
BoPR
2023After the turbulent previous years, in 2023 the Czech economy returned to a slight external surplus that characterised it before the COVID-19 pandemic. The current and capital account balance climbed in a single year from a deep deficit in 2022 (-4.2% of GDP) to a surplus of 1.6% of GDP in 2023. Alongside a thorough analysis of the external balance of the Czech economy, the latest edition of the BoP report presents four thematic articles. The first describes the import vulnerability of the Czech Republic to geopolitically distant countries. The second studies the life cycle of FDI in the Czech Republic. The third summarises 30 years of the Czech Republic’s history from the perspective of capital flows. The fourth shows how to disentangle price and volume effects in international goods trade. Details (pdf, 1.3 MB).