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Uruguay: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1978–2025 · 48 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
−0.438%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom −0.757%
Average, 2016–2025
−0.907%10 years
Record high and low
2.81% (2002)low −6.98% (1980)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-1.75Forecast
2030-1.53Forecast
2029-1.30Forecast
2028-1.08Forecast
2027-0.899Forecast
2026-0.797Forecast
2025-0.438
2024-0.757
2023-2.95
2022-3.52
2021-2.43
2020-0.641
20191.29
2018-0.46
20170.0113
20160.825

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1978–1997
  • World Development Indicators1978–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2012–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2016–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Uruguay 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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