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Cape Verde: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
3.53%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.4 pointsfrom 3.94%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.25%10 years
Record high and low
3.94% (2024)low −15.7% (2020)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.31Forecast
2030-2.26Forecast
2029-2.08Forecast
2028-1.83Forecast
2027-1.23Forecast
2026-0.418Forecast
20253.53
20243.94
2023-2.77
2022-3.48
2021-12.2
2020-15.7
2019-0.969
2018-4.40
2017-6.99
2016-3.47

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • World Development Indicators1980–2025
  • WDI (archive)1987–1997
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2007–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Cape Verde 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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