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Lebanon: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2024 · 45 observations · forecasts to 2025 · CA_GDP

2024
−19.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+9.1 pointsfrom −28.1%
Average, 2015–2024
−19.3%10 years
Record high and low
37.8% (1982)low −34.6% (2022)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-22.5Forecast
2024-19.0
2023-28.1
2022-34.6
2021-0.00718
2020-6.14
2019-21.0
2018-24.2
2017-22.8
2016-20.4
2015-17.1

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • WDI (archive)1989–1997
  • World Development Indicators2002–2023
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2004–2023
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2025

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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