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Papua New Guinea: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1976–2025 · 50 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
14.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.8 pointsfrom 15.5%
Average, 2016–2025
13.8%10 years
Record high and low
15.9% (2017)low −19.4% (1981)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203110.4Forecast
203010.5Forecast
202910.7Forecast
202811.4Forecast
202711.6Forecast
202613.7Forecast
202514.7
202415.5
20239.07
202214.4
202112.6
202014.3
201914.4
201813.6
201715.9
201613.6

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1976–1996
  • World Development Indicators1976–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2006–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Papua New Guinea 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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