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Bulgaria: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1924–2025 · 59 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
−5.84%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−6.1 pointsfrom 0.246%
Average, 2016–2025
0.0563%10 years
Record high and low
4.76% (1980)low −23.9% (2007)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20311.18Forecast
20300.377Forecast
2029-0.547Forecast
2028-2.74Forecast
2027-3.22Forecast
2026-0.616Forecast
2025-5.84
20240.246
20230.885
2022-2.59
2021-1.08
20200.443
20191.66
20180.655
20173.16
20163.03

Sources

  • Mitchell1924–1936
  • WDI (archive)1980–1997
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • World Development Indicators1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook2007–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Bulgaria 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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