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Ethiopia: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1977–2025 · 49 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
−0.944%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.6 pointsfrom −2.53%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.84%10 years
Record high and low
1.77% (1994)low −12.6% (2005)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.60Forecast
2030-2.13Forecast
2029-2.19Forecast
2028-2.13Forecast
2027-1.86Forecast
2026-2.38Forecast
2025-0.944
2024-2.53
2023-3.52
2022-4.19
2021-4.13
2020-2.76
2019-5.47
2018-5.53
2017-7.76
2016-11.5

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1977–2024
  • World Development Indicators1977–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • WDI (archive)1981–1997
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Ethiopia 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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