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Uganda: Current account (% of GDP)

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

2025
−6.23%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.5 pointsfrom −7.78%
Average, 2016–2025
−7.03%10 years
Record high and low
2.86% (1984)low −9.57% (2020)

Current account (% of GDP)

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

Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-1.38Forecast
2030-1.27Forecast
2029-1.10Forecast
2028-2.06Forecast
2027-2.73Forecast
2026-3.94Forecast
2025-6.23
2024-7.78
2023-7.43
2022-8.92
2021-8.89
2020-9.57
2019-7.44
2018-6.33
2017-4.88
2016-2.85

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1980–1997
  • World Development Indicators1980–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2008–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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