Table 1
Balance of payments – Not seasonally adjusted
First quarter 2021 | Second quarter 2021 | Third quarter 2021 | Fourth quarter 2021 | First quarter 2022 | 2020 | 2021 | |
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millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | |
Capital account and current account | |||||||
Net lending / net borrowing, from capital account and current account | 1,638 | -1,354 | -3,271 | 4,027 | 7,058 | -39,463 | 1,040 |
Current account balances | 1,676 | -1,354 | -3,271 | 4,027 | 7,090 | -39,415 | 1,077 |
Goods and services | 4,579 | -1,208 | -3,710 | 2,767 | 10,569 | -45,361 | 2,428 |
Goods | 2,910 | -434 | -1,121 | 3,185 | 12,323 | -39,825 | 4,540 |
Services | 1,670 | -775 | -2,589 | -419 | -1,754 | -5,536 | -2,113 |
Primary income | -60 | 784 | 286 | 1,646 | -861 | 10,186 | 2,656 |
Compensation of employees | -1,041 | -1,061 | -1,075 | -1,095 | -1,115 | -4,263 | -4,272 |
Investment income | 981 | 1,845 | 1,361 | 2,742 | 254 | 14,449 | 6,928 |
Direct investment | 8,960 | 7,954 | 9,201 | 10,736 | 8,922 | 42,169 | 36,851 |
Portfolio investment | -5,488 | -5,541 | -5,554 | -5,800 | -5,873 | -24,842 | -22,383 |
Other investment | -2,491 | -568 | -2,287 | -2,195 | -2,794 | -2,878 | -7,539 |
Secondary income | -2,844 | -930 | 153 | -386 | -2,617 | -4,240 | -4,007 |
Capital account balance | -38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -33 | -48 | -38 |
Financial account1,2 | |||||||
Net lending / net borrowing, from financial account | 81 | 3,361 | 1,062 | 926 | -975 | -39,273 | 5,430 |
Net acquisition of financial assets | -15,905 | 93,606 | 121,796 | 222,122 | -46,424 | 222,401 | 421,619 |
Direct investment assets | 9,263 | 21,437 | 25,846 | 66,717 | 19,664 | 67,122 | 123,262 |
Direct investment assets, equity | 17,933 | 18,228 | 24,396 | 61,694 | 19,337 | 65,960 | 122,252 |
Direct investment assets, debt instruments | -8,671 | 3,209 | 1,449 | 5,023 | 328 | 1,161 | 1,010 |
Canadian portfolio investment in foreign securities | 36,487 | 57,071 | 27,490 | 44,422 | -45,264 | 44,022 | 165,470 |
Foreign debt securities | 5,075 | 19,883 | 8,157 | 19,717 | 10,398 | 1,749 | 52,832 |
Foreign money market instruments | 416 | 385 | -2,769 | 2,295 | 1,574 | 1,948 | 327 |
Foreign bonds | 4,659 | 19,498 | 10,926 | 17,422 | 8,825 | -199 | 52,505 |
Foreign equity and investment fund shares | 31,412 | 37,188 | 19,332 | 24,705 | -55,662 | 42,273 | 112,638 |
Official international reserves | -5,468 | 6,060 | 23,288 | 1,439 | 3,840 | 1,772 | 25,320 |
Other Canadian investment abroad | -56,186 | 9,037 | 45,173 | 109,544 | -24,665 | 109,485 | 107,567 |
Loans | -21,170 | -18,966 | 43,444 | 22,064 | -27,508 | 8,963 | 25,372 |
Currency and deposits | 7,494 | 16,082 | 4,307 | 32,038 | 33,630 | 70,039 | 59,920 |
Trade credits and advances | 495 | 254 | -142 | 239 | 745 | -386 | 846 |
Other accounts receivable | -43,004 | 11,667 | -2,436 | 55,203 | -31,531 | 30,870 | 21,430 |
Net incurrence of liabilities | -15,986 | 90,245 | 120,734 | 221,195 | -45,449 | 261,674 | 416,189 |
Direct investment liabilities | 24,779 | 13,556 | 19,395 | 17,879 | 20,113 | 35,802 | 75,609 |
Direct investment liabilities, equity | 16,892 | 14,960 | 15,169 | 21,717 | 19,005 | 25,991 | 68,738 |
Direct investment liabilities, debt instruments | 7,887 | -1,404 | 4,227 | -3,838 | 1,108 | 9,811 | 6,871 |
Foreign portfolio investment in Canadian securities | 16,136 | 53,038 | 57,093 | 91,415 | 74,451 | 134,945 | 217,683 |
Canadian debt securities | -9,621 | 52,681 | 54,779 | 73,904 | 62,076 | 148,960 | 171,743 |
Canadian money market instruments | -11,858 | 26,759 | 6,391 | 19,605 | -9,239 | 20,308 | 40,897 |
Canadian bonds | 2,237 | 25,922 | 48,388 | 54,299 | 71,316 | 128,652 | 130,846 |
Canadian equity and investment fund shares | 25,757 | 357 | 2,315 | 17,511 | 12,375 | -14,015 | 45,940 |
Other foreign investment in Canada | -56,901 | 23,652 | 44,245 | 111,901 | -140,014 | 90,926 | 122,897 |
Loans | -21,485 | -16,594 | 39,421 | 29,681 | -56,809 | 30,908 | 31,024 |
Currency and deposits | -36,131 | 39,077 | -14,334 | 80,046 | -83,854 | 58,146 | 68,658 |
Special drawing rights | 0 | 0 | 18,943 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18,943 |
Trade credits and advances | 346 | 511 | -440 | 995 | 481 | -94 | 1,413 |
Other accounts payable | 369 | 658 | 656 | 1,178 | 169 | 1,965 | 2,860 |
Discrepancy (net errors and omissions) | -1,557 | 4,715 | 4,333 | -3,101 | -8,033 | 189 | 4,391 |
Source(s):
Table note 1
Transactions are recorded on a net basis.
Table note 2
In the financial account, a positive value denotes an increase in investment and a negative value denotes a decrease in investment.
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