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Botswana: Current account balance (% of GDP)

2.93percent · 2025+31.5% 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 Botswana from 1975 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20252.927
2024-4.505
20231.48
2022-0.594
2021-1.765
2020-9.806
2019-6.905
20180.393
20175.586
20167.973
20152.226
201411.075
20134.531
2012-5.902
2011-0.873
2010-5.888
2009-6.406
20081.393
200715.655
200619.665
200516.106
20043.537
20039.542
20024.842
200110.843
20009.418
199910.639
19983.543
199714.37
199610.21
19956.334
19945.204
199310.263
19924.768
19917.683
1990-0.509
198915.951
19887.333
198731.981
19867.803
19857.35
1984-4.736
1983-6.735
1982-14.248
1981-28.28
1980-14.238
1979-7.393
1978-19.573
1977-5.97
1976-5.471
1975-10.013

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

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