Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics (BOP/IIP), World and Country Group Aggregates
The World and Country Group Aggregates (historically called BOPSY), is an annual publication, released each November, which contains balance of payments and international investment position (IIP) statistics based on the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6) methodology.
Country-level information is based on actual data reported directly to the IMF or obtained from the country’s National Summary Data Page, except for accounts between individual countries and the IMF, which are replaced as needed with data from the Fund Accounts. World and country group aggregates for each component, other than the Euro Area, combine the sum of reported country data within the group with estimates for nonreporting economies, which are derived from a range of additional sources, including the World Economic Outlook (WEO) and External Wealth of Nations databases. Euro Area (EA) data represents the EA’s external transactions and positions vis-à-vis the rest of the world, as reported by the European Central Bank.
