SOFIA (Bulgaria), February 17 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria’s current account was in deficit of 1.38 billion euro ($1.57 billion) at the end of 2021, compared to a deficit of some 161.2 million euro a year earlier, the central bank said on Thursday.
The current account deficit in 2021 was equivalent to 2.1% of the gross domestic product (GDP) projected for last year, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a statement.
The deficit in 2020 was equivalent to 0.3% of that year’s GDP, the BNB added.
Details follow (in millions of euro):
2021 | 2020 | |
CURRENT ACCOUNT | -1,380.7 | -161.2 |
– goods and services (net) | 979.6 | 1,113.8 |
–goods | -3,368.4 | -1,945.4 |
–services | 4,348.0 | 3,059.1 |
-primary income | -3,005.7 | -2,109.7 |
-secondary income | 645.4 | 834.8 |
CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 489.0 | 946.5 |
FINANCIAL ACCOUNT | 3,087.8 | 2,621.0 |
source: BNB
($ = 0.8795 euro)
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