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Gabon: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1978–2023 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2023
3.00%percent of GDP
Change on 2022
−5.8 pointsfrom 8.85%
Average, 2014–2023
2.73%10 years
Record high and low
24.6% (2008)low −31.1% (1986)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-6.58Forecast
2030-5.98Forecast
2029-5.48Forecast
2028-6.15Forecast
2027-5.46Forecast
2026-4.27Forecast
2025-3.14Forecast
20241.71Forecast
20233.00
20228.85
20213.26
2020-0.496
20194.60
20187.14
2017-0.706
2016-5.41
20150.98
20146.11

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1978–1995
  • World Development Indicators1978–2015
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1980–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2023–2031

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Gabon 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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