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Barbados: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1967–2024 · 58 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2024
−3.90%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+3.9 pointsfrom −7.79%
Average, 2015–2024
−5.17%10 years
Record high and low
7.47% (1992)low −28.0% (1969)

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
2031-5.21Forecast
2030-5.15Forecast
2029-5.48Forecast
2028-6.00Forecast
2027-6.60Forecast
2026-6.98Forecast
2025-7.51Forecast
2024-3.90
2023-7.79
2022-7.88
2021-7.90
2020-5.13
2019-0.978
2018-3.36
2017-5.07
2016-7.97
2015-1.73

Sources

  • World Development Indicators1967–2017
  • WDI (archive)1970–1995
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2010–2017
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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