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Gambia: Current account balance (% of GDP)

-2.93percent · 2025+25.0% 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 Gambia from 1978 to 2025.

19812025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
2025-2.926
2024-4.15
2023-5.04
2022-4.094
2021-4.313
2020-4.776
2019-2.044
2018-8.083
2017-6.329
2016-5.128
2015-3.902
2014-6.878
2013-7.059
2012-6.557
2011-7.671
20101.134
20091.931
2008-0.403
2007-6.195
2006-6.223
2005-4.222
2004-3.152
20030.541
1997-2.856
1996-5.55
1995-1.035
19941.085
1993-0.684
19925.343
19911.732
19907.624
19895.459
198812.096
19876.456
19861.665
19853.406
19843.726
1983-14.775
1982-9.929
1981-19.943
1980-37.571
1979-17.887
1978-27.349

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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