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Saudi Arabia: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1971–2025 · 55 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
−2.56%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.3 pointsfrom −1.30%
Average, 2016–2025
2.47%10 years
Record high and low
50.7% (1974)low −20.8% (1991)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-3.76Forecast
2030-3.66Forecast
2029-3.61Forecast
2028-3.50Forecast
2027-2.95Forecast
2026-1.61Forecast
2025-2.56
2024-1.30
20232.13
202211.7
20216.38
2020-3.07
20194.76
20188.81
20171.52
2016-3.70

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1971–1997
  • OECD Economic Outlook1971–2025
  • World Development Indicators1971–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • Saudi Central Bank2005–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2005–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators2006–2025
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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Saudi Arabia 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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