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Afghanistan: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1979–2024 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2025 · CA_GDP

2024
−39.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−19.3 pointsfrom −20.3%
Average, 2015–2024
−19.2%10 years
Record high and low
63.4% (2007)low −39.6% (2024)

Current account (% of GDP)

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ForecastPercent of GDP

Compare with other countries →Definition of Current account (% of GDP)

Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-40.2Forecast
2024-39.6
2023-20.3
2022-18.5
2021-0.056
2020-15.7
2019-20.2
2018-21.6
2017-19.0
2016-15.0
2015-21.9

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1979–1981
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2002–2024
  • World Development Indicators2008–2020
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2010–2020
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2025

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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