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Botswana: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1975–2025 · 51 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
2.93%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+7.2 pointsfrom −4.26%
Average, 2016–2025
−0.496%10 years
Record high and low
32.0% (1987)low −28.3% (1981)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.42Forecast
2030-2.10Forecast
2029-1.83Forecast
2028-2.02Forecast
2027-1.42Forecast
2026-1.91Forecast
20252.93
2024-4.26
20231.49
2022-0.595
2021-1.76
2020-9.81
2019-6.91
20180.393
20175.59
20167.97

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1975–1996
  • World Development Indicators1975–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2006–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Botswana documentation (PDF)

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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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