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India: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1948–2025 · 59 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
−0.731%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.1 pointsfrom −0.637%
Average, 2016–2025
−1.02%10 years
Record high and low
2.35% (2003)low −4.97% (2012)

Current account (% of GDP)

Report error
-5%-4%-3%-2%-1%0%1%2%3%1960198020002020IndiaIndia
ForecastPercent of GDP

Compare with other countries →Definition of Current account (% of GDP)

Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-1.95Forecast
2030-1.67Forecast
2029-1.48Forecast
2028-1.46Forecast
2027-1.18Forecast
2026-2.08Forecast
2025-0.731
2024-0.637
2023-0.777
2022-2.08
2021-1.27
20200.946
2019-0.884
2018-2.17
2017-1.90
2016-0.665

Sources

  • Mitchell1948–1950
  • WDI (archive)1970–1997
  • World Development Indicators1975–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1979–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1997–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2005–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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