Bank of Lithuania publishes Q3 2025 balance of payments showing current account surplus narrowing to EUR 66.5 million

The Bank of Lithuania released Lithuania’s balance of payments for the third quarter of 2025, reporting that the current account balance surplus fell from EUR 137.9 million in the second quarter to EUR 66.5 million, equal to 0.3% of gross domestic product (GDP). The capital account surplus doubled to EUR 577.2 million and the net flow of financial account investment turned positive at EUR 1.1 billion, or 5.0% of GDP. The narrower current account surplus reflected a larger primary income deficit, up 21.1% to EUR 914.9 million, and a wider foreign trade deficit, up 9.2% to EUR 1.8 billion as goods imports rose 3.5% against a 2.4% increase in exports. This was partly offset by a larger services surplus, up 6.9% to EUR 2.7 billion, with services exports rising 6.2% and imports 5.7%, and by a secondary income surplus that increased 3.9 times to EUR 87.4 million due to European Union support to general government and lower government expenditure. The positive financial account outcome was driven by a EUR 1.5 billion positive net flow of portfolio investment and a EUR 157.4 million increase in official reserve assets, partly offset by negative net flows of direct investment of EUR 464.2 million and other investment of EUR 74.7 million; the net international investment position stood at -EUR 2.4 billion, or -2.9% of GDP, while gross external debt was EUR 73.7 billion, or 89.1% of GDP, and net external debt was -EUR 7.1 billion, or -8.6% of GDP. The Bank of Lithuania noted that detailed balance of payments, international investment position and external debt data are available via its External statistics pages and its My Datasets tool.