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Laos: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
11.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+8.2 pointsfrom 3.22%
Average, 2016–2025
−1.73%10 years
Record high and low
11.4% (2025)low −15.7% (2015)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-0.615Forecast
2030-0.0593Forecast
20290.629Forecast
20281.36Forecast
20270.897Forecast
20260.163Forecast
202511.4
20243.22
20232.55
2022-2.97
20212.29
2020-1.60
2019-7.04
2018-9.09
2017-7.38
2016-8.70

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • WDI (archive)1984–1997
  • World Development Indicators1984–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2012–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Laos 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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