February 1 (SeeNews) - Macedonia's November 2016 current account deficit jumped to 50.4 million euro ($54.1 million), from 27 million euro in the same month of 2015, according to figures from the central bank, NBRM.
The increase in deficit was mainly due to lower surplus in the services sector, figures published on the website of NBRM on Tuesday indicated.
NBRM has revised the data for October current account balance to a deficit of 2.7 million euro.
Details follow (in millions of euro):
|
Nov'16 |
Oct'16* |
Nov'15 |
CURRENT ACCOUNT BALANCE |
-50.4 |
-2.7 |
-27.0 |
- Goods |
-161.4 |
-138.7 |
-165.6 |
- Services |
14.7 |
30.3 |
31.1 |
- Primary income |
-29.6 |
-31.0 |
-22.6 |
- Secondary income |
125.9 |
136.7 |
130.1 |
CAPITAL ACCOUNT BALANCE |
-0.1 |
0.1 |
0.0 |
FINANCIAL ACCOUNT BALANCE |
-49.3 |
6.4 |
-34.8 |
($ = 0.9318 euro)