Financial accounts, balance sheets and distributional accounts

Banca d'Italia publishes quarterly statistics on Financial Accounts, covering flows and stocks of financial assets and liabilities, broken down by institutional sector (non-financial corporations, households, general government, financial corporations and the rest of the world) and by financial instrument, ranked according to their degree of liquidity, defined on the basis of their original maturity and marketability (ranging from currency and deposits to insurance and pension instruments).

In addition, since January 2022, Banca d'Italia and Istat have published statistics on the amount and composition of the wealth of Italy's institutional sectors, together with a comparison with other advanced economies.

Since January 2024, the Bank of Italy has published Distributional Wealth Accounts for households, updated quarterly, approximately five months after the end of the reference quarter. These statistics provide information on the distribution of household wealth by combining the national accounts aggregates included in the balance sheets with survey data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), the harmonised survey of household finances in euro-area countries, which includes the survey conducted by the Banca d'Italia (Survey on Household Income and Wealth). The distributional accounts are compiled according to a methodology agreed within the European System of Central Banks and supplemented with additional national data sources. Updates, data and methodological information on this topic are available through the Banca d'Italia's Statistics Portal. In particular, the following sections can be accessed directly:

Report and data

Analysis and Methodology