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Uruguay: Current account balance (% of GDP)

-0.48percent · 2025-87.7% 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 Uruguay from 1978 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
2025-0.479
2024-0.757
2023-2.954
2022-3.517
2021-2.434
2020-0.641
20191.291
2018-0.46
20170.011
20160.825
2015-0.255
2014-2.989
2013-3.287
2012-3.755
2011-2.611
2010-1.742
2009-1.166
2008-5.556
2007-0.926
2006-1.985
20050.243
20040.023
2003-0.724
20022.807
2001-2.381
2000-2.481
1999-2.116
1998-1.873
1997-1.199
1996-1.138
1995-1.101
1994-2.508
1993-1.625
1992-0.068
19910.379
19901.999
19891.582
19880.27
1987-1.91
19860.712
1985-2.071
1984-2.662
1983-1.227
1982-2.556
1981-4.176
1980-6.977
1979-4.973
1978-2.586

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Monetary Fund, World Bank, OECD. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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