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Brazil: Current account (% of GDP)

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

2025
−2.93%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.2 pointsfrom −1.68%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.26%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
2027-2.41Forecast
2026-1.99Forecast
2025-2.93
2024-1.68
2023-1.42
2022-2.47
2021-2.81
2020-1.82
2019-3.65
2018-2.87
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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