# United Kingdom BoP Current Account Balance / Rest of the World (S.2): Current external balance (B.12): Current price £m: Not seasonally adjusted ()

United Kingdom BoP Current Account Balance / Rest of the World (S.2): Current external balance (B.12): Current price £m: Not seasonally adjusted () was −22,456 £m in Q2 2026, down 4,145.0 from Q1 2026 and up 6,454.0 from a year earlier.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −39,325 £m (Q1 2022) to 10,362 £m (Q4 2022), averaging −16,889 £m.

- Source agency: UK Office for National Statistics
- Makrognosis code: `UK.CURRACCT.Q.NSA.ITEM-HBOG`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: £m
- Coverage: 1955-01-01 to 2026-04-01 (286 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/united-kingdom/bop-current-account-balance-rest-of-the-world-s-2-current-external

## Recent data

| Period | Value |
|---|---:|
| Q2 2026 | −22,456 £m |
| Q1 2026 | −18,311 £m |
| Q4 2025 | −23,756 £m |
| Q3 2025 | −21,730 £m |
| Q2 2025 | −28,910 £m |
| Q1 2025 | −17,234 £m |
| Q4 2024 | −23,994 £m |
| Q3 2024 | −18,772 £m |
| Q2 2024 | −27,214 £m |
| Q1 2024 | −14,295 £m |
| Q4 2023 | −8,883.0 £m |
| Q3 2023 | −14,537 £m |
| Q2 2023 | −32,752 £m |
| Q1 2023 | −14,146 £m |
| Q4 2022 | 10,362 £m |
| Q3 2022 | −5,419.0 £m |
| Q2 2022 | −17,784 £m |
| Q1 2022 | −39,325 £m |
| Q4 2021 | −1,753.0 £m |
| Q3 2021 | −20,169 £m |
| Q2 2021 | 4,973.0 £m |
| Q1 2021 | −2,569.0 £m |
| Q4 2020 | −27,603 £m |
| Q3 2020 | −14,201 £m |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.CURRACCT.Q.NSA.ITEM-HBOG"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.CURRACCT.Q.NSA.ITEM-HBOG",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```