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Kiribati: Current account balance (% of GDP)

-15.23percent · 2025-151.9% 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 Kiribati from 1979 to 2025.

19792025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
2025-15.226
2024-17.351
2023-1.754
2022-11.992
20217.094
202032.266
201940.028
201832.898
201731.611
20169.309
201529.363
201427.983
2013-5.022
20121.749
2011-8.829
20100.118
2009-11.817
2008-3.569
2007-1.818
2006-8.614
19942.062
1993-6.964
1992-14.789
199110.392
1990-25.146
1989-4.084
1988-4.797
1987-11.152
1986-10.107
1985-6.57
198434.92
198315.661
1982-8.107
1981-10.153
19807.301
197960.432

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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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