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Sierra Leone: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1977–2024 · 48 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2024
−14.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−6.3 pointsfrom −7.86%
Average, 2015–2024
−8.99%10 years
Record high and low
28.7% (1986)low −39.4% (2011)

Current account (% of GDP)

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ForecastPercent of GDP

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

Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-3.00Forecast
2030-3.41Forecast
2029-2.86Forecast
2028-2.87Forecast
2027-2.90Forecast
2026-3.27Forecast
2025-5.08Forecast
2024-14.1
2023-7.86
2022-6.35
2021-7.29
2020-5.84
2019-7.79
2018-9.26
2017-11.8
2016-4.83
2015-14.8

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1977–1995
  • World Development Indicators1977–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2018–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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