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Tanzania: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1976–2024 · 49 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2024
−3.00%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+0.7 pointsfrom −3.75%
Average, 2015–2024
−3.65%10 years
Record high and low
−0.324% (2002)low −14.5% (1993)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-1.99Forecast
2030-1.96Forecast
2029-1.96Forecast
2028-2.03Forecast
2027-2.12Forecast
2026-2.26Forecast
2025-2.44Forecast
2024-3.00
2023-3.75
2022-7.24
2021-3.36
2020-2.21
2019-2.20
2018-4.05
2017-2.77
2016-2.45
2015-5.52

Sources

  • World Development Indicators1976–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2023
  • WDI (archive)1988–1997
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2012–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2023–2031

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Tanzania 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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