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Sudan: Current account balance (% of GDP)

-8.46percent · 2025+19.8% 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 Sudan from 1977 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
2025-8.462
2024-4.655
2023-5.19
2022-8.599
2021-7.655
2020-21.606
2019-14.781
2018-14.469
2017-11.17
2016-9.883
2015-10.557
2014-7.16
2013-13.532
2012-16.632
2011-4.822
2010-2.926
2009-9.544
2008-5.543
2007-6.052
2006-14.351
2005-7.028
2004-3.071
2003-4.395
2002-5.368
2001-3.321
2000-4.224
1999-4.036
1998-8.502
1997-7.089
1996-9.167
1995-3.615
1994-4.703
1993-2.277
1992-7.198
1991-2.161
1990-1.107
1989-0.696
1988-2.491
1987-1.897
1986-0.209
19851.905
19840.349
1983-2.597
1982-2.795
1981-5.996
1980-3.53
1979-3.046
1978-1.339
1977-1.181

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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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