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Income received from ownership, such as interest, dividends and rent, under the relevant accounts' definitions.
A lender may receive interest for providing funds; an equity holder may receive a dividend from a company’s earnings. The amount depends on the asset, its terms and decisions by the payer. Statistical measures can make adjustments or include imputations, so the published category should be read according to its methodology rather than assumed to equal only visible cash deposits.
Imagine a hypothetical person receiving 500 in deposit interest and 1,500 in share dividends during a year. Those receipts total 2,000 of these asset-income types. If the shares also rise in market value by 3,000 but are not sold, that price increase is a different kind of wealth change; it does not turn the interest-and-dividend receipts into 5,000.