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Qatar: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
14.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−2.7 pointsfrom 17.5%
Average, 2016–2025
10.3%10 years
Record high and low
125.5% (1980)low −30.9% (1997)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203114.4Forecast
203013.8Forecast
202912.5Forecast
202810.3Forecast
20279.86Forecast
202611.0Forecast
202514.8
202417.5
202317.1
202226.8
202119.2
2020-2.47
20192.42
20189.08
20173.99
2016-5.45

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2023
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2011–2024
  • World Development Indicators2011–2025
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2023–2031

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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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