The national financial accounts include a structured and coherent set of statistical information, which records financial transactions – flows and stocks – between the institutional sectors of the economy and between these sectors and the rest of the world, disaggregated by financial instrument

External statistics measure the relationships between one economy and the outside world. They include the balance of payments statistics (transactions), international investment position statistics (positions) and international reserves statistics

The statistics of the balance of payments reflect the economic transactions occurred between residents and non-residents for a certain period of time and comprise transactions on goods, services, income, unrequited transfers and financial operations

The statistics of the international investment position reflect the value and composition of the financial assets and liabilities of the resident economy vis-à-vis the rest of the world at the end of a certain period of time. This statistic allow to calculate external debt

International banking statistics on a consolidated basis

The international banking statistics comprise the international financial assets of the Portuguese banks in a consolidated basis

The international reserves statistics comprise the external assets readily available and controlled by the monetary authority to meet the external financing needs of the country and are a main part of the Eurosystem external assets, for countries belonging to the European Monetary Union

Payments statistics include information on the use of payment instruments in Portugal and transactions processed through interbank clearing and settlement systems

Cash issuance statistics provide information on the main stages of the cash lifecycle

Budget outturn is the set of operations that reflect the collection of expected revenue and the payment of expenses set out in the State Budget

The national accounts comprise the financial and non-financial accounts of the economy covering the main macroeconomic variables and the relations between the resident institutional sectors and  the rest of the world