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Kuwait: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1975–2025 · 51 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
22.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−6.3 pointsfrom 29.0%
Average, 2016–2025
15.7%10 years
Record high and low
56.7% (1979)low −240.5% (1991)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203114.3Forecast
203016.1Forecast
202917.7Forecast
202819.4Forecast
202721.8Forecast
202626.0Forecast
202522.7
202429.0
202331.1
202234.4
20216.86
20202.73
201913.0
201814.1
20177.87
2016-4.69

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1975–1997
  • World Development Indicators1975–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1981–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2007–2024
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Kuwait 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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