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Namibia: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
−13.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom −13.4%
Average, 2016–2025
−8.72%10 years
Record high and low
13.5% (2006)low −16.5% (2016)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-12.1Forecast
2030-12.0Forecast
2029-12.7Forecast
2028-13.3Forecast
2027-13.6Forecast
2026-15.7Forecast
2025-13.1
2024-13.4
2023-15.0
2022-12.6
2021-10.7
20203.98
2019-1.76
2018-3.55
2017-4.42
2016-16.5

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1990–1997
  • World Development Indicators1990–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2007–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Namibia 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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