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List of Proposed BPM7 Chapters

Below is a list of the proposed chapters for the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, seventh edition (BPM7).

The development of the BPM7 chapters will go through the following major milestones:

  • Draft annotated outlines
  • Final annotated outlines
  • Draft chapters
  • Final chapters 

Since the updates of the System of National Accounts (SNA) and the Balance of Payments Manual are being carried out in close collaboration, a number of joint SNA/BPM chapters are being developed, as indicated below. The full list of chapters for the forthcoming 2025 SNA is available at: List of 2025 SNA Chapters (unstats.un.org).

Draft Consolidated BPM7 - Chapters Only

  • Tracked Changes File
  • Clean Copy Preview File
 Survey closes September 13
Consolidated BPM7 Annotated Outline
 عربي / 中文 / Français (pending) / Русский / Español
Glossary of Terms and Definitions in Macro-Economic Statistics
Global Consultation on the 2025 SNA/BPM7 Implementation Strategy - Survey closed on January 10, 2025
Global consultation on the Post-2025 SNA/BPM7 Research Agenda - Survey closed on January 27, 2025

Chapter 

Chapter Title

Draft Annotated Outline 1

Final Annotated Outline 2

Draft Chapter 3

Links to Global Consultation Surveys 

Final Chapter

1

Introduction (revised content)

PDF PDF PDF Survey closed Aug. 7, 2024 PDF

2

Overview of the Integrated Framework (revised title and revised content)

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Mar 15, 2024
PDF

3

(SNA Chapter 4) Flows, Stocks, and Accounting Rules (revised title)

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed May 15, 2024 PDF

4

(SNA Chapter 5) Residence, Institutional Units and Sectors (revised title)

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Feb 17, 2024
PDF

5

Classifications of Financial Assets and Liabilities (revised content)

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Feb 16, 2024
PDF

6

Functional Categories in International Accounts (revised title and revised content)

PDF 

PDF
PDF Survey closed June 10, 2024 PDF

7

Balance sheet: the International Investment Position (revised title)

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed May 6, 2024
PDF

8

Financial Account

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Feb 16, 2024
PDF

9

Other Changes in Financial Assets and Liabilities Account

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Mar 4, 2024 PDF

10

Goods Account (revised title and revised content)

PDF 

PDF
PDF Survey closed July 22, 2024 PDF

11

Services Account (revised title and revised content)

PDF 

PDF
PDF Survey closed Aug. 28, 2024 PDF

12

Earned Income Account (revised title, provisional)

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Aug. 28, 2024 PDF

13

Transfer Income Account (revised title, provisional)

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Aug. 14, 2024 PDF

14

Capital Account

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Aug. 28, 2024 PDF

15

(SNA Chapter 23) Globalization (new chapter)

PDF

PDF
PDF Survey closed Apr 4, 2024 PDF

16

(SNA Chapter 22) Digitalization (new chapter)

PDF

PDF
PDF Survey closed Jan 26, 2024
PDF

17

(SNA Chapter 26) Islamic Finance (new chapter)

PDF

PDF
PDF Survey closed Jan 12, 2024 PDF

18

(SNA Chapter 39) Informal Activities (new chapter)

PDF

PDF
PDF Survey closed June 11, 2024 PDF

19

Selected Issues in Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Analysis

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed May 6, 2024
PDF

20

(SNA Chapter 21) Communicating and Disseminating Economic Statistics (new chapter)

PDF

PDF
PDF Survey closed May 23, 2024 PDF

Annex 1

Exceptional Financing Transactions

PDF  PDF
PDF Survey closed May 31, 2024 PDF

Annex 2

Debt Reorganization and Related Transactions

PDF  PDF
PDF Survey closed Aug. 7, 2024 PDF

Annex 3

Regional Arrangements: Currency Unions, Economic Unions, and Other Regional Statements 

PDF  PDF
PDF Survey closed Jan. 10. 2025 PDF

Annex 4

Remittances

PDF  PDF
PDF Survey closed Jan. 3, 2025 PDF

Annex 5

Selected Issues on Cross-Border Trade (new annex)

PDF 

PDF
PDF Survey closed Jan. 10, 2025 PDF

Annex 6

Selected Issues on Direct Investment (revised title)

PDF  PDF
PDF Survey closed Nov. 22, 2024 PDF

Annex 7

Selected Financial Issues (revised title and revised content) 

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Feb 16, 2024
PDF

Annex 8

Insurance and Pensions (revised title)

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Nov. 18, 2024 PDF

Annex 9

Positions and Transactions with IMF (previous annex to Chapter 7; revised content) 

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Jan. 10, 2025 PDF

Annex 10

Sustainable Finance in External Sector Statistics: Climate Change Related Indicators (new annex)

PDF 

PDF
PDF Survey closed Jan. 10, 2025
PDF

Annex 11

Data by Partner Economy

PDF PDF
PDF Survey closed Jan. 10, 2025 PDF
Annex 12
Links between International Standards for Macroeconomic Statistics (revised title and revised content) 
PDF 
PDF
PDF Survey closed Jan. 3, 2025 PDF
Annex 13
Changes from BPM6 (revised content) 
N/A N/A N/A N/A PDF4 
Annex 14 Standard Components and Selected Other Items (revised content)
N/A N/A N/A N/A PDF4
Annex 15 Research Agenda N/A N/A PDF Survey closed Jan 27, 2025 PDF

1 The version of the annotated outline that was posted for global consultation.

2 The version of the annotated outline incorporating the comments from global consultation and AEG/BOPCOM, and cleared by BPM/SNA project managers.

3 The version of the chapter posted for global consultation.

4 This version incorporates the comments from BOPCOM and cleared by BPM project manager.

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