The Eurozone recorded a current account deficit of €6.19 billion in May 2026, narrowing slightly from a €6.57 billion shortfall a year earlier. The improvement was driven by a sharp reduction in the primary income deficit to €22.44 billion from a record €42.35 billion in May 2025. Meanwhile, the secondary income deficit widened to €13.19 billion from €10.84 billion. The goods surplus narrowed to €9.45 billion, its smallest since April 2023, while the services surplus increased to €19.99 billion from €16.42 billion. For the January–May period, the current account surplus rose to €67.5 billion from €64.37 billion a year earlier. source: European Central Bank
Euro Area recorded a Current Account deficit of 6.19 EUR Billion in May of 2026. Current Account in Euro Area averaged 9.08 EUR Billion from 1999 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 55.58 EUR Billion in December of 2023 and a record low of -31.67 EUR Billion in May of 2022. This page provides the latest reported value for - Euro Area Current Account - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Euro Area Current Account - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on July of 2026.
Euro Area recorded a Current Account deficit of 6.19 EUR Billion in May of 2026. Current Account in Euro Area is expected to be 36.00 EUR Billion by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Euro Area Current Account is projected to trend around 34.00 EUR Billion in 2027 and 29.00 EUR Billion in 2028, according to our econometric models.