"Figure 1a: In 2018, the rest of the world continues to be a net lender to the UK at 4% of gross domestic product","" "Indicative Blue Book 2020 net lending or borrowing positions as a percentage of gross domestic product, UK, 1997 to 2018","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","Percentage of GDP" "","" "","Public corporations","Private non-financial corporations","Financial corporations","Central government","Local government","Households","NPISH","Rest of the world" "1997","0.1","0.0","-2.6","-1.8","-0.3","4.2","0.3","0.0" "1998","0.0","0.3","-2.8","0.1","-0.4","2.0","0.2","0.6" "1999","0.0","-0.7","-3.7","0.9","-0.3","1.0","0.3","2.5" "2000","0.0","-1.1","-5.0","1.7","-0.4","2.0","0.4","2.3" "2001","-0.1","-1.2","-3.5","0.6","-0.4","1.9","0.5","2.1" "2002","-0.2","0.8","-3.0","-1.7","-0.2","1.5","0.7","2.2" "2003","-0.3","1.9","-1.4","-3.1","-0.1","0.6","0.7","1.8" "2004","-0.4","1.4","-1.3","-2.7","-0.3","0.3","0.7","2.3" "2005","-0.4","1.2","-0.9","-2.6","-0.4","0.3","0.7","2.0" "2006","-0.1","0.3","-1.0","-2.8","-0.1","0.1","0.7","3.0" "2007","-0.1","-1.0","-1.5","-2.5","-0.2","1.1","0.8","3.4" "2008","-0.3","0.4","-0.8","-4.9","-0.3","1.3","0.6","3.9" "2009","-0.1","1.8","0.1","-9.9","-0.5","4.7","0.6","3.3" "2010","-0.2","2.5","-1.6","-9.1","-0.2","4.9","0.7","3.2" "2011","-0.2","2.3","-0.3","-7.3","-0.2","3.6","0.2","1.9" "2012","0.0","0.2","0.8","-7.7","-0.4","3.4","0.1","3.5" "2013","0.0","-1.3","-0.6","-5.4","-0.1","2.5","0.0","5.0" "2014","-0.1","-1.2","-0.8","-5.6","0.1","2.8","-0.1","5.0" "2015","-0.1","-2.7","-1.3","-4.5","-0.1","3.7","-0.1","5.1" "2016","-0.1","-2.0","-1.7","-2.9","-0.4","1.6","0.0","5.5" "2017","-0.2","-0.3","-0.8","-2.0","-0.4","0.2","-0.4","3.8" "2018","0.0","-1.0","-0.7","-1.9","-0.3","0.6","-0.5","3.8"