January 18 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's current account surplus decreased to 2.66 billion euro ($3.03 billion) in the January-November period of 2018, from 3.65 billion euro in the like period of 2017, the central bank said on Friday.
The current account surplus in the January-November period was equivalent to 4.8% of the estimated 2018 gross domestic product (GDP), the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a monthly balance of payments report.
In November 2018, Bulgaria current account was in surplus of 58.6 million euro, compared to a deficit of 26.1 million euro in November 2017.
Details follow (in millions of euro):
|
Jan-Nov '18 |
Jan-Nov '17 |
CURRENT ACCOUNT |
2657.1 |
3650.1 |
- Goods and services (net) |
1211.9 |
2364.3 |
-- goods (net) |
-1998.3 |
-371.3 |
-- services (net) |
3210.3 |
2735.6 |
- Primary income (net) |
-375.9 |
-447.4 |
- Secondary income (net) |
1821.1 |
1733.2 |
CAPITAL ACCOUNT |
600.1 |
431.1 |
FINANCIAL ACCOUNT |
2602.3 |
1,685.5 |
($ = 0.8771 euro)