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Sri Lanka: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1947–2025 · 55 observations · CA_GDP

2025
1.58%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.4 pointsfrom 1.21%
Average, 2016–2025
−1.20%10 years
Record high and low
3.46% (1977)low −16.3% (1980)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20251.58
20241.21
20231.71
2022-1.95
2021-3.71
2020-1.41
2019-2.07
2018-2.96
2017-2.45
2016-1.98

Sources

  • Mitchell1947–1950
  • WDI (archive)1975–1997
  • World Development Indicators1975–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2010–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024

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Sri Lanka 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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