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Belgium: Current account balance (% of GDP)

-0.16percent · 2025-111.3% 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 Belgium from 2002 to 2025.

20022025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
2025-0.155
20240.728
20230.362
2022-1.82
20211.868
20200.904
20190.123
2018-0.874
20170.702
20160.558
20151.38
20140.751
20130.969
2012-0.083
2011-1.929
20101.524
20091.81
2008-0.831
20071.496
20061.85
20051.997
20043.097
20033.397
20024.498

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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