Bulgaria - Balance of Goods

For Bulgaria, the monthly detailed balance of payments presentation according to the IMF BPM6 framework. These cover the entire range of activities of the Bulgarian economy with the rest of the world, except for certain changes to the residents' accounts assets out of the country, and estimates made for shuttle trade.

Active:

• Framework: IMF BPM6
• Measurement: Millions of euros (Mil. EUR)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Monthly
• Start date: Uniformly 2007m1

Predecessors:

• In BGN - 2007m1 to 2025m12
• BPM5 - 1998m1 to 2015m1 ("_B5")

Global concept aliases:

• TAB
• TRBG
• TREG
• TRIG

The Bulgarian National Bank is responsible for the compilation of the balance of payments for the country. The statistics is processed by the "Balance of Payments and External Debt" Division within the BNB. 

Moody's Analytics supplements

For the current account balance we back-extend (1998m1 to 2006m12) and construct a seasonally adjusted counterpart.

Revisions to the preliminary data are mandatory international practice. When data revisions are made as a response to additional information being collected the BNB informs users through monthly press releases and in the notes at the end of data tables. When major data revisions are made as a result of changes to the methodology the BNB publishes the information in advance to inform users. 

Further reading

At the source:

• BALANCE OF PAYMENTS OF BULGARIA, January - September 2016 (pdf)

At Eurostat:

• Statistics Explained » Balance of payments statistics

At IMF (SDDS Plus):

• External sector » Balance of payments

• Sep 2005 - Initial version.
• May 2015 - Framework advanced to BPM6.
• 30 Mar 2026, Phillip Thorne - Reporting in BGN terminated: Properties, Moody's Analytics supplements, Further reading.