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Rwanda: Current account balance (% of GDP)

-11.96percent · 2024-4.1% since 2014

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 Rwanda from 2010 to 2024.

20102024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
2024-11.962
2023-11.125
2022-9.072
2021-10.746
2020-11.705
2019-11.701
2018-10.101
2017-9.552
2016-15.48
2015-12.829
2014-11.496
2013-7.585
2012-9.806
2011-7.012
2010-6.595

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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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