Net acquisition of financial assets (current LCU) - Country Ranking - Europe

Definition: Net acquisition of government financial assets includes domestic and foreign financial claims, SDRs, and gold bullion held by monetary authorities as a reserve asset. The net acquisition of financial assets should be offset by the net incurrence of liabilities.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Norway 256,292,000,000.00 2019
2 Turkey 215,790,000,000.00 2020
3 Iceland 95,126,590,000.00 2019
4 Serbia 33,500,300,000.00 2012
5 United Kingdom 23,084,000,000.00 2019
6 Germany 17,961,680,000.00 1990
7 Spain 8,717,363,000.00 2019
8 Switzerland 7,535,034,000.00 2019
9 Finland 3,957,126,000.00 1994
10 Belarus 3,715,292,000.00 2019
11 Ukraine 2,848,000,000.00 2019
12 Austria 2,788,457,000.00 1994
13 Portugal 893,247,300.00 1994
14 North Macedonia 889,314,000.00 2019
15 Poland 875,000,000.00 1994
16 Bosnia and Herzegovina 730,581,800.00 2019
17 Malta 150,608,000.00 2019
18 Lithuania 146,055,400.00 1994
19 San Marino 124,443,100.00 2007
20 Ireland 109,000,000.00 2019
21 Bulgaria 26,516,000.00 1994
22 Romania 21,969,000.00 1994
23 Estonia 814,897.40 1992
24 Greece 0.00 1990
24 Denmark 0.00 1989
24 Sweden 0.00 1989
27 Cyprus -17,603,490.00 1994
28 Slovenia -19,195,460.00 1994
29 Luxembourg -104,090,500.00 1994
30 Croatia -704,380,000.00 1994
31 Moldova -2,224,200,000.00 2019
32 Italy -3,296,028,000.00 1991
33 Albania -11,017,490,000.00 2019
34 Netherlands -11,045,010,000.00 1994
35 Czech Republic -13,511,000,000.00 1994
36 France -17,333,450,000.00 1994
37 Hungary -95,621,000,000.00 2019

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Limitations and Exceptions: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Despite IMF efforts to standardize data collection, statistics are often incomplete, untimely, and not comparable across countries.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014, harmonized with the 2008 SNA, recommends an accrual accounting method, focusing on all economic events affecting assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, not just those represented by cash transactions. It accounts for all changes in stocks, so stock data at the end of an accounting period equal stock data at the beginning of the period plus flows over the period. The 1986 manual considered only debt stocks. Government finance statistics are reported in local currency. Many countries report government finance data by fiscal year; see country metadata for information on fiscal year end by country.

Periodicity: Annual