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Algeria: Current account balance (% of GDP)

-8.81percent · 2025+38.9% since 2015

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. Annual figures for Algeria from 1977 to 2025.

19772025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
2025-8.814
2024-1.082
20232.615
20228.623
2021-2.423
2020-11.031
2019-8.764
2018-8.689
2017-11.622
2016-14.496
2015-14.421
2014-3.877
20130.517
20125.324
20118.095
20106.874
20090.287
200818.823
200721.303
200623.499
200519.786
19915.177
19902.289
1989-1.943
1988-3.452
19870.212
1986-3.501
19851.751
19840.139
1983-0.175
1982-0.405
19810.203
19800.588
1979-4.909
1978-13.426
1977-11.087

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Monetary Fund, World Bank, OECD. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Current account balance (% of GDP). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-current-account-balance-zs (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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