economic2025

Current account balance (% of GDP)

Name: Current account balance (% of GDP)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, trade-industry-supply-chains, current, account, balance

Compare current account balance (% of gdp) across 96 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2025.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•96 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

-2.1%

Median: -0.9%

Countries Covered

96

with available data

Highest

Kuwait

22.7%

Lowest

Suriname

-54.9%

Top 5 Countries

1Kuwait22.7%

2Brunei Darussalam18.0%

3Tajikistan17.1%

4Singapore16.7%

5Qatar14.8%

By Region

Asia4.2%(15 countries)

Africa1.1%(6 countries)

Europe0.4%(25 countries)

South America0.2%(7 countries)

North America-1.7%(3 countries)

Key Findings

•96 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Kuwait has the highest published value (22.6972 %).
•Suriname has the lowest published value (-54.9165 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (-54.9%)High (22.7%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: -2.1%)

Asia (15)

Africa (6)

Europe (25)

South America (7)

North America (3)

Oceania (2)

Other (38)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Balance of current transactions (transactions in goods and services, earned income and transfer income) between residents and non-residents. The term current account balance is used in the external accounts and is expressed from the perspective of resident units. The term current external balance is used in the national accounts and is expressed from the perspective of the non-resident units, and therefore with the opposite sign. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Values use one fixed 2025 reference year from World Development Indicators series BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Balance of current transactions (transactions in goods and services, earned income and transfer income) between residents and non-residents. The term current account balance is used in the external accounts and is expressed from the perspective of resident units. The term current external balance is used in the national accounts and is expressed from the perspective of the non-resident units, and therefore with the opposite sign. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Kuwait	22.7%
2	Brunei Darussalam	18.0%
3	Tajikistan	17.1%
4	Singapore	16.7%
5	Qatar	14.8%
6	Norway	14.0%
7	Ghana	8.2%
8	Switzerland	7.0%
9	Samoa	6.9%
10	South Korea	6.6%
11	Sweden	6.1%
12	Ecuador	5.9%
13	Luxembourg	5.2%
14	Japan	4.9%
15	Nigeria	4.8%
16	Trinidad and Tobago	4.8%
17	Azerbaijan	4.6%
18	Germany	4.5%
19	People's Republic of China	3.8%
20	Peru	3.6%
21	Slovenia	3.6%
22	Cape Verde	3.5%
23	Spain	2.9%
24	Thailand	2.8%
25	Honduras	2.4%
26	Austria	1.8%
27	Russian Federation	1.7%
28	Hungary	1.7%
29	Israel	1.4%
30	Finland	1.3%
31	Italy	1.1%
32	Lithuania	0.9%
33	Czech Republic	0.6%
34	Angola	0.4%
35	Bangladesh	-0.1%
36	Indonesia	-0.1%
37	Pakistan	-0.1%
38	Estonia	-0.1%
39	Lesotho	-0.2%
40	Panama	-0.2%
41	France	-0.3%
42	India	-0.4%
43	South Africa	-0.4%
44	Uruguay	-0.4%
45	Mexico	-0.4%
46	Albania	-0.5%
47	Costa Rica	-0.7%
48	Poland	-0.9%
49	Canada	-0.9%
50	Argentina	-1.1%
51	Dominican Republic	-1.2%
52	Chile	-1.2%
53	Bolivia	-1.9%
54	Belgium	-1.9%
55	Belarus	-1.9%
56	Colombia	-2.4%
57	United Kingdom	-2.4%
58	Morocco	-2.5%
59	Saudi Arabia	-2.6%
60	Georgia	-2.6%
61	Australia	-2.7%
62	Belize	-2.8%
63	Brazil	-2.9%
64	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-3.1%
65	Paraguay	-3.2%
66	Philippines	-3.3%
67	Latvia	-3.4%
68	Iceland	-3.5%
69	El Salvador	-3.5%
70	New Zealand	-3.6%
71	Slovakia	-3.6%
72	United States of America	-3.6%
73	Cambodia	-3.6%
74	Egypt	-3.8%
75	Uzbekistan	-3.9%
76	Kazakhstan	-4.1%
77	The Republic of North Macedonia	-4.3%
78	Democratic Republic of the Congo	-4.3%
79	Serbia	-4.9%
80	Bulgaria	-5.8%
81	Saint Lucia	-6.3%
82	Cyprus	-6.3%
83	Armenia	-7.2%
84	Romania	-7.9%
85	Antigua and Barbuda	-12.0%
86	Saint Kitts and Nevis	-13.7%
87	Burundi	-13.7%
88	State of Palestine	-15.8%
89	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-16.1%
90	Kiribati	-17.6%
91	Moldova, Republic of	-19.6%
92	Montenegro	-20.4%
93	Grenada	-23.1%
94	Timor-Leste	-36.9%
95	Dominica	-38.0%
96	Suriname	-54.9%

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Topics

#trend-research-200 #world-bank #trade-industry-supply-chains #current #account #balance

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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