France: Current account (% of GDP)
Percent of GDP · 1850–2025 · 163 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP
- 2025
- −0.274%percent of GDP
- Change on 2024
- −0.0 pointsfrom −0.226%
- Average, 2016–2025
- −0.562%10 years
- Record high and low
- 7.50% (1865)low −21.9% (1919)
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Percent of GDP
| Year | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | 0.425 | Forecast |
| 2030 | 0.51 | Forecast |
| 2029 | 0.351 | Forecast |
| 2028 | 0.222 | Forecast |
| 2027 | -0.204 | Forecast |
| 2026 | -0.0955 | Forecast |
| 2025 | -0.274 | |
| 2024 | -0.226 | |
| 2023 | -0.995 | |
| 2022 | -1.17 | |
| 2021 | 0.277 | |
| 2020 | -2.05 | |
| 2019 | 0.597 | |
| 2018 | -0.698 | |
| 2017 | -0.546 | |
| 2016 | -0.528 |
Sources
- Jones & Obstfeld1850–1939
- Mitchell1860–1938
- Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
- WDI (archive)1975–1997
- IMF International Financial Statistics1975–1998
- OECD Economic Outlook1975–2025
- World Development Indicators1975–2025
- IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
- OECD Key Economic Indicators1999–2025
- IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
- OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
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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