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Qatar: Current account balance (% of GDP)

14.81percent · 2025+74.2% 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 Qatar from 2011 to 2025.

20112025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202514.811
202417.515
202317.114
202226.778
202114.644
2020-2.068
20192.415
20189.083
20173.989
2016-5.45
20158.502
201423.959
201330.424
201233.185
201131.068

Source

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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