Current account balance (US$)
Current account balance in current US dollars.
- World total
- US$269B
- across 101 countries, 2025
- Latest observation
- 2025
- forecast → 2031
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
No data available
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2025.
Highest 5
- US$735B
- US$228B
- US$216B
- US$123B
- US$101B
Source: World Bank — WDI · BN.CAB.XOKA.CD
Lowest 5
Source: World Bank — WDI · BN.CAB.XOKA.CD
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Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
No series for the selected countries.
Definition
- Definition
- Current account balance in current US dollars.
- Unit
- current US$ (US$)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- sum · No direction
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source200 countries · 7,781 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0
Balance of current transactions (transactions in goods and services, earned income and transfer income) between residents and non-residents. The term current account balance is used in the external accounts and is expressed from the perspective of resident units. The term current external balance is used in the national accounts and is expressed from the perspective of the non-resident units, and therefore with the opposite sign. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars. Source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Priority #2Open at source195 countries · 8,968 obs. · → 2031 · © International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook database (April 2026)
IMF WEO — Current account balance (credit less debit), US dollar
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=current-account-balance" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'