Net International Investment Position API

The stock of external wealth — how much each economy owns abroad versus how much the rest of the world owns of it, live from the OECD's official balance-of-payments statistics, no key. Where the current account is the yearly flow of external lending or borrowing, the net international investment position (Net IIP) is the accumulated stock those flows pile up into: a country running persistent surpluses builds a large positive Net IIP and becomes a net creditor to the world (Norway, Japan, Germany, Switzerland), while persistent deficits build a large negative one — a net debtor, like the United States. The Net IIP is one of the deepest gauges of external sustainability and a structural anchor for a currency: a big positive position earns net income on foreign assets and is a buffer in a crisis, while a large negative one leaves a currency exposed to the willingness of foreigners to keep funding it. The board endpoint ranks economies by their Net IIP as a share of GDP — the size-neutral cross-country screen — from biggest net creditors to biggest net debtors. The gross endpoint ranks by gross external assets as a share of GDP, a measure of financial openness and international integration where small financial hubs tower with foreign assets worth multiples of GDP. The country endpoint gives one economy's full external balance sheet: the Net IIP in dollars and as a share of GDP, its gross foreign assets and liabilities, and the net position broken down by function — direct investment, portfolio investment, other investment and reserve assets, which sum to the net position — with a plain-language read. Each reading carries its own quarter and discontinued series are filtered out. This is the external-stock / net-foreign-wealth cut — the companion to, and distinct from, the current-account balance (the yearly flow, not the accumulated stock), trade growth, and the gross-government-debt and debt-service feeds (public-sector domestic debt, not the whole economy's external position). Positions are in billions of US dollars and percent of GDP; figures are quarterly end-of-period stocks.