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Mexico: Current account balance (% of GDP)

-0.51percent · 2025+80.3% 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 Mexico from 1979 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
2025-0.511
2024-0.917
2023-0.57
2022-1.023
2021-0.341
20202.397
2019-0.297
2018-2.064
2017-1.797
2016-2.273
2015-2.599
2014-1.821
2013-2.394
2012-1.41
2011-0.858
2010-0.34
2009-0.751
2008-1.407
2007-0.845
2006-0.317
2005-0.624
2004-0.465
2003-0.527
2002-1.529
2001-2.23
2000-2.527
1999-2.218
1998-2.869
1997-1.464
1996-0.58
1995-0.415
1994-5.358
1993-4.414
1992-6.73
1991-4.754
1990-2.852
1989-2.631
1988-1.307
19872.878
1986-1.023
19850.41
19842.271
19833.756
1982-3.19
1981-6.156
1980-5.07
1979-4.021

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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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