Benin — Current account

millions of LCU · Annual · 1967–2030 · 64 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.

For Benin, the current account reading stood at −792.85B LCU in 2025. Against −859.97B LCU in 2024, the period change was +67.12B LCU. The corresponding ratio to GDP was −5.55% in 2025.

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Latest observations

2018–2030

PeriodValue
2030-907.04B LCU
2029-854.59B LCU
2028-833.20B LCU
2027-795.49B LCU
2026-774.40B LCU
8 earlier values, back to 2018
2025-792.85B LCU
2024-859.97B LCU
2023-975.83B LCU
2022-617.31B LCU
2021-407.45B LCU
2020-157.34B LCU
2019-344.39B LCU
2018-362.32B LCU
Data release 2026_08_27_1049, published 30 Sept 2026.