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Egypt: Current account balance (% of GDP)

-3.82percent · 2025+27.1% 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 Egypt from 1977 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
2025-3.815
2024-5.686
2023-3.173
2022-2.21
2021-4.382
2020-3.709
2019-3.208
2018-2.932
2017-3.197
2016-6.165
2015-5.235
2014-1.948
2013-1.225
2012-2.498
2011-2.324
2010-2.057
2009-1.771
2008-0.869
20070.316
20062.453
20052.345
20044.978
20034.662
20020.731
2001-0.402
2000-0.973
1999-1.802
1998-3.025
1997-0.906
1996-0.284
1995-0.422
19940.06
19935.449
19927.813
19919.011
19905.414
1989-3.291
1988-2.976
19870.05
1986-3.494
1985-4.651
1984-5.554
1983-1.064
1982-6.692
1981-9.644
1980-2.014
1979-8.361
1978-6.239
1977-5.649

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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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