China — Current account (% of GDP)
% of GDP · Annual · 1982–2030 · 49 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 China was 2.92% of GDP in 2025. The previous reading was 2.14% of GDP in 2024; the period change was +0.78 percentage points.
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- Annual data, 1982–2030
- Quarterly data, 1998–2026
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Latest observations
2021–2030
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2030 | 2.06 % of GDP |
| 2029 | 2.21 % of GDP |
| 2028 | 2.35 % of GDP |
| 2027 | 2.55 % of GDP |
| 2026 | 3.17 % of GDP |
5 earlier values, back to 2021
| 2025 | 2.92 % of GDP |
| 2024 | 2.14 % of GDP |
| 2023 | 1.41 % of GDP |
| 2022 | 2.47 % of GDP |
| 2021 | 1.98 % of GDP |