The difference between a country's external financial assets and liabilities is its net international investment position (NIIP). A country's external debt includes both its government debt and private debt, and similarly its public and privately held (by its legal residents) external assets are also taken into account when calculating its NIIP. Note that commodities, as well as currencies tend to follow cyclical patterns, whereby they undergo significant valuation changes, of which is reflected in NIIP.
A country's international investment position (IIP) is a financial statement setting out the value and composition of that country's external financial assets and liabilities. A positive NIIP value indicates a nation is a creditor nation, while a negative value indicates it is a debtor nation. The USA, as recently as 1960 the world's largest creditor, has now become the world's largest debtor, and since the 1980s, Japan has replaced USA as the world's largest creditor nation.
Video Net international investment position
List of countries and regions by net international investment position
Maps Net international investment position
List of countries and regions by net international investment position in million USD according to the IMF
See also
- Net foreign assets
- List of countries by external debt
- List of countries by public debt
- List of countries by net international investment position per capita
References
External links
- Bureau of Economic Analysis Elena L. Nguyen: The International Investment Position of the United States at Yearend 2007. U.S.
- Bank of Japan Japan's International Investment Position at Year-End 2009 (Retrieved on June 30, 2011)
- Deutsche Bundesbank (German Central Bank) International Investment Position - External Debt Statistics
- European Economic Forecast Spring 2010 European Commission working draft Graph 1.3.2., International investment position since 1980 in major economic units.
Statistics
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) International Investment Position (IIP) Data
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook Database, April 2011
- UK National Statistics Great Britain: International Investment Position, Table K
- Saint-Petersburg (Russia) statistic Economic statistics of St. Petersburg
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