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Bulgaria: Current account balance (% of GDP)

-5.84percent · 2025-31861.0% 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 Bulgaria from 1980 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
2025-5.843
2024-0.516
2023-1.154
2022-1.362
20210.247
20201.467
20191.658
20180.575
20173.246
20163.102
20150.018
20142.192
20131.216
2012-0.974
20110.472
2010-1.903
2009-8.181
2008-21.796
2007-25.74
2006-17.053
2005-11.205
2004-6.388
2003-4.834
2002-1.945
2001-5.673
2000-5.312
1999-4.782
1998-0.412
19973.772
19960.128
1995-0.136
1994-0.328
1993-10.144
1992-4.183
1991-1.008
1990-8.25
1989-3.536
1988-1.748
1987-2.533
1986-4.694
1985-0.774
19843.073
19830.212
19820.894
19810.608
19804.761

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Monetary Fund, World Bank, OECD. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Current account balance (% of GDP). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-current-account-balance-zs (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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