经常项目缺口相当于GDP的5.5 % ， 目前为主要经合组织国家最高，这一水平也是金融危机爆发以来长期存在的水平 — — 英国和其他国家都是如此。
The current-account gap, at 5.5% of GDP, is by far the highest among the major OECD countries and is at a level long associated – both in the UK and elsewhere – with the onset of financial crises.