UK trade balance, goods and services
The total trade balance in £ million per year: exports minus imports of goods and services, current prices.
Trade balance
−£39.4bn
2025
Verified against source, 30 October 2026, 11:53 UTCSource: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
20 periods, newest first
| Period | Trade balance |
|---|---|
| 2025 | −£39.4bn |
| 2024 | −£21.1bn |
| 2023 | −£20.7bn |
| 2022 | −£30.4bn |
| 2021 | −£1.0bn |
| 2020 | £13.3bn |
| 2019 | −£24.0bn |
| 2018 | −£21.8bn |
| 2017 | −£24.5bn |
| 2016 | −£31.6bn |
| 2015 | −£24.0bn |
| 2014 | −£28.9bn |
| 2013 | −£18.8bn |
| 2012 | −£11.9bn |
| 2011 | −£8.8bn |
| 2010 | −£20.9bn |
| 2009 | −£16.0bn |
| 2008 | −£23.9bn |
| 2007 | −£28.6bn |
| 2006 | −£27.9bn |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics
- Check it yourself
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/timeseries/ikbj/mret
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 30 October 2026, 11:45 UTC
- Publisher release
- 2026-10-14T23:00:00.000Z; next release 12 November 2026
- Series as published
- Total Trade (TT): WW: Balance: BOP: CP: SA (IKBJ, dataset MRET)
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/timeseries/ikbj/mret/dataSHA-256 8f0dc959901d6df46e21de21f6a3d1856fb052a96fda66f6467444accf589bda · 151,214 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 30 October 2026, 11:53 UTC Run at 30 October 2026, 11:53 UTC; 20 of 20 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-30T11:45:11Z; 1 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 1 of 1 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 20 of 20 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 20 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 20 of 20 figures match exactly after downloading 1 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | ONS CSV download agrees | 20 of 20 figures match the CSV at https://www.ons.gov.uk/generator?format=csv&uri=/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/timeseries/ikbj/mret |
| Pass | ONS series is current | last released 2026-10-14, 15 days before retrieval (limit 400); next release 12 November 2026 |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/timeseries/ikbj/mret – HTTP 200 |