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Botswana — Current account (% of GDP)

% of GDP · Annual · 1975–2031 · 57 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 current account reading for Botswana was 2.93% of GDP in 2025. The previous reading was −4.26% of GDP in 2024; the period change was +7.19 percentage points.

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Latest observations

2020–2031

PeriodValue
2031-2.42 % of GDP
2030-2.1 % of GDP
2029-1.83 % of GDP
2028-2.02 % of GDP
2027-1.42 % of GDP
7 earlier values, back to 2020
2026-1.91 % of GDP
20252.93 % of GDP
2024-4.26 % of GDP
20231.49 % of GDP
2022-0.6 % of GDP
2021-1.76 % of GDP
2020-9.81 % of GDP
Data release 2026_10_06_0823, published 6 Oct 2026.