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Nigeria: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1977–2025 · 49 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
4.83%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−2.7 pointsfrom 7.54%
Average, 2016–2025
1.52%10 years
Record high and low
20.8% (2005)low −10.3% (1978)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20313.32Forecast
20303.04Forecast
20293.01Forecast
20282.69Forecast
20273.12Forecast
20265.81Forecast
20254.83
20247.54
20231.32
20220.157
2021-0.534
2020-2.67
2019-2.05
20181.73
20173.61
20161.25

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1977–1997
  • World Development Indicators1977–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2010–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Nigeria 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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