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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Balance of Payments (BOPS) database is a statistical statement containing over 100,000 quarterly and annual time series data that summarise, for a specific period (typically a year or quarter), the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world. It covers:all the goods, services, factor income and current transfers an economy receives from or provides to the rest of the worldcapital transfers and changes in an economy's external financial claims and liabilitiesThis database was first provided by the UK Data Service in June 2004.

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The database covers:balance of paymentseconomics, international and monetary economicsinternational monetary systemcurrenciesmonetary economicsinternational economicsforeign investmentinternational, foreign and world tradeexchange rates and foreign exchange