The balance of payments is a statistical statement summarising transactions between Latvia's residents and the rest of the world. It incorporates the current account, the capital account and the financial account.
Data in the statistical database INTS
Current account
Basis for the compilation of statistics in accordance with the ECB requirements
Guideline of the European Central Bank of 9 December 2011 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of external statistics (recast) (ECB/2011/23) (2012/120/EU)
Republic of Latvia legal acts governing data collection
Latvijas Banka's Regulation No 207 "Regulation on Compiling and Submitting the Statistical Data on Card-Based Payments" of 13 June 2022
Latvijas Banka's Regulation No 210 "Regulation on Compiling and Submitting the Statistical Data on the Financial Position (1-FP)" of 13 June 2022
Latvijas Banka's Regulation No 211 "Regulation on Compiling and Submitting the Statistical Data on Securities" of 13 June 2022
Latvijas Banka's Regulation No 213 "Regulation on Compiling and Submitting the Statistical Data on Foreign Assets and Liabilities (1-MB)" of 12 September 2022
Latvijas Banka's Regulation No 214 "Regulation on Compiling and Submitting the Statistical Data on Transportation and Intermediary Services (3-MB)" of 12 September 2022
Latvijas Banka's Regulation No 215 "Regulation on Compiling and Submitting the Statistical Data on Services (4-MB)" of 12 September 2022
Latvijas Banka's Regulation No 216 "Regulation on Compiling and Submitting the Statistical Data on Job Contracts for Working Abroad (5-MB)" of 12 September 2022
Latvijas Banka's Regulation No 217 "Regulation on Compiling and Submitting the Statistical Data on External Payments of Non-Banks" of 12 September 2022
Latvijas Banka's Regulation No 218 "Regulation on Compiling and Submitting the Statistical Data on the Financial Position of Credit Institutions and Other Monetary Financial Institutions (MBP)" of 12 September 2022
Financial and Capital Market Commission's Regulation No 28 "Regulation on the Preparation of Reports of Private Pension Funds" of 31 March 2020
Financial and Capital Market Commission's Regulation No 153 "Regulation on the Preparation of Reports for Management of State Funded Pension Scheme's Assets" of 15 September 2020
Financial and Capital Market Commission's Regulation No 155 "Regulation on the Preparation of Reports of Investment Management Companies" of 15 September 2020
Financial and Capital Market Commission's Regulation No 156 "Regulation on the Preparation of Reports of Alternative Investment Fund Managers" of 15 September 2020
Financial and Capital Market Commission's Regulation No 228 "Regulation on the Preparation of Reports of Insurers and Reinsurers" of 1 December 2020
Financial and Capital Market Commission's Regulation No 244 "Regulation on the Preparation of Requirements and Reports Regulating the Activities of Payment Institutions and Electronic Money Institutions" of 22 December 2020
Financial and Capital Market Commission's Regulation No 165 "Regulation on the Preparation of Quarterly Reports of Investment Firms" of 13 September 2022
Descriptions
Basic principles for compiling statistics are available in the annual buletin Latvia's Balance of Payments.