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Nepal: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
11.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+7.5 pointsfrom 3.88%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.05%10 years
Record high and low
11.4% (2025)low −14.5% (2021)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-4.01Forecast
2030-3.03Forecast
2029-1.69Forecast
2028-0.307Forecast
20272.02Forecast
20266.91Forecast
202511.4
20243.88
20232.45
2022-5.77
2021-14.5
2020-0.252
2019-5.13
2018-8.30
2017-3.56
2016-0.684

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1970–1997
  • World Development Indicators1976–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1976–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Nepal 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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