Current account balance

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 in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
199
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Monetary Fund

    Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania2025-160.91Mcurrent USD
Angola2025536.17Mcurrent USD
Antigua and Barbuda2025-281.35Mcurrent USD
Argentina2025-7.58Bcurrent USD
Armenia2025-2.11Bcurrent USD
Australia2025-48.22Bcurrent USD
Austria202510.40Bcurrent USD
Azerbaijan20253.48Bcurrent USD
Bangladesh2025-239.45Mcurrent USD
Belarus2025-1.82Bcurrent USD

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