The National Bank of Ukraine has revised Ukraine’s balance of payments statistics for 2020–2024 and the first three quarters of 2025, and began publishing data on transactions by other financial corporations on its External Sector Statistics webpage. The sectoral breakdown has been expanded to align with the IMF’s Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, sixth edition, without changing aggregate balance of payments indicators because these transactions were already captured but not shown as a standalone item. Revisions incorporate new information, mirror statistics and updated calculation methodology. Goods trade for 2020–2023 was updated after clarified postal volumes, increasing recorded goods imports by USD 1,459 million (2020), USD 2,083 million (2021), USD 926 million (2022) and USD 1,589 million (2023), and increasing postal exports by USD 440 million, USD 508 million, USD 276 million and USD 336 million respectively. The 2023 Travel item was revised for updated residency status of persons who stayed abroad for more than one year, reducing previously recorded expenses abroad by USD 1.5 billion. Private remittances to Ukraine were also revised down by USD 49 million for 2024 and by USD 305 million for January–September 2025 following improved estimates by Narodowy Bank Polski based on a survey of Ukrainians in Poland. The central bank has published a list of the main external sector statistics adjustments and the reasons for them in its methodological materials for External Sector Statistics.

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