The residents, the firms, and the government of Greece engage in a multitude of economic transactions with entities from other countries every year: they consume foreign goods, travel abroad, produce for foreign markets, borrow from international markets, invest in foreign stocks... These activities are measured in the flows of international trade and in the balance of payments.

The next graphs present the evolution of exports and imports of goods and services as well as the trade balance:

The second graph shows the evolution of the current account balance. The current account balance captures the amount of financing that the Greek economy requires from abroad.