5302.0 - Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia, Mar 2018 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 05/06/2018   
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MARCH KEY FIGURES

Dec Qtr 2017
Mar Qtr 2018
Dec Qtr 2017 to Mar Qtr 2018
$m
$m
% change

BALANCE ON CURRENT ACCOUNT
Trend estimates
-12 670
-12 229
3
Seasonally adjusted
-14 661
-10 469
29
BALANCE ON GOODS AND SERVICES
Trend estimates
1 102
1 796
63
Seasonally adjusted
-1 022
4 083
(a) . .
NET PRIMARY INCOME
Trend estimates
-13 393
-13 684
-2
Seasonally adjusted
-13 228
-14 253
-8
LEVELS AT END OF PERIOD
International Investment Position
988 633
954 554
-3
Net foreign equity
-35 518
-71 267
-101
Net foreign debt
1 024 150
1 025 821
-

- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
. . not applicable
(a) See paragraph 17 of the Explanatory Notes.


Current Account Balance (a), Main aggregates
Graph: Current Account Balance (a), Main aggregates

International Investment
Graph: International Investment




MARCH KEY POINTS


BALANCE OF PAYMENTS
  • The current account deficit, seasonally adjusted, fell $4,192m to $10,469m in the March quarter 2018. There was a turnaround of $5,105m on the balance on goods and services, resulting in a surplus of $4,083m in the March quarter 2018. The primary income deficit rose $1,025m to $14,253m.
  • In seasonally adjusted chain volume terms, the deficit on goods and services fell $1,514m from $14,275m in the December quarter 2017 to $12,761m in the March quarter 2018. This is expected to contribute 0.3 percentage points to growth in the March quarter 2018 volume measure of GDP.


INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT POSITION (IIP)
  • Australia's net IIP liability position was $954.6b at 31 March 2018, a decrease of $34.1b on the revised 31 December 2017 position of $988.6b. Australia's net foreign debt liability increased $1.7b to $1,025.8b. Australia's net foreign equity asset position increased $35.7b to $71.3b at 31 March 2018.


NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER) Release Date
June 2018 4 September 2018
September 2018 4 December 2018
December 2018 5 March 2019
March 2019 4 June 2019


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INQUIRIES

For further information contact Balance of Payments at <balance.of.payments@abs.gov.au> for balance of payments estimates, and International Investment at <international.accounts@abs.gov.au> for international investment estimates.