Current account balance (% of GDP)

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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.

Columns (4)

countrystringiso3stringyearstringvaluenumber

Sample rows

iso3yearvaluecountry
AFE2025Africa Eastern and Southern
AFW2025Africa Western and Central
ARB2025Arab World
CSS2025Caribbean small states
CEB2025Central Europe and the Baltics
EAR2025Early-demographic dividend
EAS2025East Asia & Pacific
EAP2025East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)

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