2025-04-11
Today, Lietuvos bankas published the balance of payments for February 2025, which shows that:
compared to January, the surplus on the current account balance (CAB) decreased from €70.2 million to €2.9 million in February. This development was mainly determined by a significant rise in the foreign trade deficit (see Chart 1). Following a decrease in exports of goods (9.5%) and a rise in imports (1.5%), the foreign trade deficit went up by a factor of 2.1 and totalled €638.7 million. As exports of services increased (11.4%) and imports of services shrank (8.2%), the surplus balance of services rose by 48.3% to €727.4 million. The deficit on primary income balance decreased (17.7%) and stood at €96.8 million. The secondary income balance turned from deficit to surplus, amounting to €11.0 million;
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the negative net flow of financial account investment (€257.2 million) was mostly driven by the negative net flow of other investment (€1.1 billion) and direct investment (€148.2 million). The impact of these negative flows was mitigated by a positive net flow of portfolio investment (€988.2 million) (see Chart 2).
Chart 1. CAB and its composite flows
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Chart 2. Net financial account investment flows
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Detailed data on the balance of payments for February is available on Lietuvos bankas’ website (External statistics).
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