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United Arab Emirates: Current account

Millions of local currency · 1980–2024 · 45 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA

2024
294 billionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+16.5%year on year
In US dollars, 2024
$80 billionUS dollars

Current account

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031270,596Forecast
2030256,698Forecast
2029247,440Forecast
2028246,339Forecast
2027270,946Forecast
2026260,554Forecast
2025320,412Forecast
2024293,700
2023252,000
2022244,130
2021195,472
202077,500
2019112,100
2018155,089
2017107,783
201651,795
201568,699

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

United Arab Emirates 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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