The dataset contains the official reserve assets for the euro area as a whole and at national level for the Monetary Union"s participant countries. The statistics generally follow the breakdown of the 5th edition of the IMF Balance of Payments Manual (BPM5). Methodological notes on the reserve assets of the euro area and of the ECB are available on the ECB website.
The ECB publication The statistical treatment of Eurosystem"s international reserves , also available on the ECB website, contains further details on the compilation of euro area reserve assets statistics.
Monthly
monthly, quarterly, annual
For information about the naming convention (series key dimensions and metadata), refer to the RA underlying DSD (ECB_BOP1) maintained by the ECB.
non-seasonally adjusted data
Manual checks
Automatised FAME processin
MSs may report revisions to the ECB at any time (See Section 6.2 of the BOP data exchange booklet).
RA - International Reserves of the Eurosystem (discontinued)
National Central Banks and ECB
European Central Bank
Money and Banking, BIS
The data are published on the Website on the last working day of each month with reference to the previous month (see Section 6.2 of the BOP data exchange booklet).
Statistics Bulletin
Download the series catalogue containing a full list of series and associated metadata of the dataset RA in CSV format (zipped)