Burkina Faso — Current account (% of GDP)

% of GDP · Annual · 1968–2030 · 63 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. This series expresses the aggregate as a percentage of GDP for the matching period.

The latest current account reading for Burkina Faso was −1.62% of GDP in 2025. The previous reading was −3.97% of GDP in 2024; the period change was +2.35 percentage points.

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Latest observations

2018–2030

PeriodValue
2030-3.88 % of GDP
2029-3.21 % of GDP
2028-2.44 % of GDP
2027-1.45 % of GDP
2026-1.25 % of GDP
8 earlier values, back to 2018
2025-1.62 % of GDP
2024-3.97 % of GDP
2023-5.06 % of GDP
2022-7.54 % of GDP
20210.39 % of GDP
20204.19 % of GDP
2019-3.27 % of GDP
2018-4.18 % of GDP
Data release 2026_08_27_1049, published 30 Sept 2026.