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Many African and American economies run current account deficits

Current account balance as a ratio to gross domestic product, percentage, 2025

UN Trade and Development, UNCTADstat.

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For many economies in the Americas, Africa, South and South-Eastern Europe, and Oceania, payments made for transactions with other economies exceeded the receipts earned in 2025, leading to negative current account balances. Most economies in Asia recorded current account surpluses or relatively small deficits.

The highest current account surplus relative to gross domestic product (GDP), 40% in 2025, was recorded in Macao (China). Anguilla ranked second, marking a surplus at 31% of its GDP. Thereafter, Tuvalu recorded a 30% surplus, followed by Papua New Guinea with 24%. The highest current account deficits in proportion to GDP were observed in Suriname, Dominica, Timor-Leste, and Kyrgyzstan. 

In absolute terms, the United States of America (-$1 177 billion), the United Kingdom (-$125 billion), and Brazil (-$67 billion) ran the world's largest current account deficits in 2025. China recorded the largest absolute surplus (+$735 billion), followed by Germany (+$227 billion), and Japan (+$216 billion).

Data updated on 24 Sep 2026

Metadonnées

The current account, within the balance of payments, displays the transactions between residents and non-residents of a reporting economy, involving economic values, namely the cross-national exchange of goods and services as well as cross-national transfers of primary and secondary income.

The current account balance shows the difference between the sum of exports and income receivable, and the sum of imports and income payable, where exports and imports refer to both goods and services, while income refers to both primary and secondary income. A surplus in the current account is recorded when receipts exceed payments; a deficit is recorded when payments exceed receipts.

The current account data in this section correspond to the latest reporting standard, known as BPM6, defined by the IMF (2009).

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