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Lesotho: Current account (% of GDP)

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

2025
−0.153%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−3.9 pointsfrom 3.73%
Average, 2016–2025
−6.16%10 years
Record high and low
62.3% (1987)low −23.1% (1976)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-0.0532Forecast
20300.367Forecast
2029-0.237Forecast
2028-1.43Forecast
2027-2.31Forecast
2026-3.38Forecast
2025-0.153
20243.73
2023-7.12
2022-11.4
2021-8.13
2020-5.89
2019-7.46
2018-5.62
2017-9.01
2016-10.5

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1975–1994
  • World Development Indicators1975–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2007–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Lesotho 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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