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Mauritania: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1975–2024 · 50 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2024
−9.55%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−0.5 pointsfrom −9.04%
Average, 2015–2024
−11.1%10 years
Record high and low
4.28% (1996)low −29.9% (2005)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-6.30Forecast
2030-6.30Forecast
2029-5.88Forecast
2028-5.43Forecast
2027-6.42Forecast
2026-6.52Forecast
2025-5.84Forecast
2024-9.55
2023-9.04
2022-14.9
2021-9.31
2020-7.25
2019-10.5
2018-13.8
2017-10.1
2016-11.0
2015-15.5

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1975–1995
  • World Development Indicators1975–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1998–2023
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Mauritania 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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