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Sweden: Current account balance (% of GDP)

6.80percent · 2025+150.4% 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 Sweden from 1970 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20256.803
20247.414
20236.22
20224.023
20216.24
20205.664
20195.215
20182.082
20172.19
20162.011
20152.717
20143.447
20134.705
20125.533
20115.51
20105.925
20095.968
20087.929
20078.148
20068.158
20056.021
20045.956
20035.859
20024.657
20016.172
20004.446
19993.929
19983.525
19972.761
19962.018
19951.85
19940.325
1993-1.956
1992-3.109
1991-1.699
1990-2.424
1989-1.425
1988-0.258
1987-0.012
19860.022
1985-0.887
19840.675
1983-0.691
1982-2.876
1981-2.145
1980-3.053
1979-1.906
1978-0.183
1977-2.248
1976-1.796
1975-0.372
1974-0.803
19732.447
19721.198
19710.879
1970-0.666

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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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