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Iraq: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1976–2025 · 27 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
1.86%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.1 pointsfrom 2.99%
Average, 2016–2025
6.55%10 years
Record high and low
21.6% (2008)low −10.7% (2003)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-5.58Forecast
2030-4.24Forecast
2029-3.09Forecast
2028-1.75Forecast
20270.246Forecast
2026-5.35Forecast
20251.86
20242.99
202310.6
202220.2
20210.00343
2020-3.58
20197.32
201816.3
20178.48
20161.37

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1976–1977
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2001–2025
  • World Development Indicators2005–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2005–2025
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Iraq 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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