Commercial users: see the World Economic Database from our partners at Anansi Data Analytics

Peru: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1942–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
3.58%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.2 pointsfrom 2.37%
Average, 2016–2025
−0.32%10 years
Record high and low
4.57% (1979)low −11.8% (1988)

Current account (% of GDP)

Report error
-15%-10%-5%0%5%1960198020002020PeruPeru
ForecastPercent of GDP

Compare with other countries →Definition of Current account (% of GDP)

Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-0.83Forecast
2030-0.405Forecast
20290.228Forecast
20281.21Forecast
20272.53Forecast
20261.67Forecast
20253.58
20242.37
20230.828
2022-3.97
2021-2.08
20200.938
2019-0.622
2018-1.18
2017-0.858
2016-2.21

Sources

  • Mitchell1942–1950
  • WDI (archive)1977–1997
  • World Development Indicators1977–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook2012–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

Compare these sources →

Peru documentation (PDF)

More for Peru

Real GDP per capita (USD)Nominal GDPReal GDPInflationUnemployment rateGovernment debt (% of GDP)All 76 series →

Current account (% of GDP) elsewhere

United StatesChinaJapanGermanyUnited KingdomFrance

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 →

GMD release 2026_09 · License & terms