Afghanistan — Current account

millions of LCU · Annual · 1979–2023 · 25 observations

About this series

The current account balance records a country's net transactions with the rest of the world in goods, services, primary income, and secondary income. A balance can be positive, negative, or zero.

In Afghanistan, the current account reading was −274.32B LCU in 2023, compared with −237.85B LCU in 2022. The period change was −36.47B LCU. The corresponding ratio to GDP was −20.3% in 2023.

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Latest observations

2014–2023

PeriodValue
2023-274.32B LCU
2022-237.85B LCU
2021-700.66M LCU
2020-241.27B LCU
2019-303.76B LCU
5 earlier values, back to 2014
2018-293.39B LCU
2017-245.45B LCU
2016-184.91B LCU
2015-250.54B LCU
2014-176.08B LCU
Data release 2026_08_27_1049, published 30 Sept 2026.