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Brazil: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1947–2025 · 55 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
−2.94%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.1 pointsfrom −3.03%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.25%10 years
Record high and low
1.97% (1950)low −6.01% (1982)

Current account (% of GDP)

Report error
-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%1960198020002020BrazilBrazil
ForecastPercent of GDP

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

Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-1.85Forecast
2030-1.95Forecast
2029-1.87Forecast
2028-2.04Forecast
2027-2.20Forecast
2026-2.62Forecast
2025-2.94
2024-3.03
2023-1.24
2022-2.15
2021-2.40
2020-1.55
2019-3.43
2018-2.82
2017-1.23
2016-1.69

Sources

  • Mitchell1947–1950
  • WDI (archive)1975–1997
  • World Development Indicators1975–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1996–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1996–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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