Ethiopia — Current account (% of GDP)

% of GDP · Annual · 1977–2030 · 54 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.

For Ethiopia, the current account reading stood at −2.88% of GDP in 2025. Against −2.53% of GDP in 2024, the period change was −0.35 percentage points.

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Latest observations

2020–2030

PeriodValue
2030-1.77 % of GDP
2029-1.7 % of GDP
2028-1.93 % of GDP
2027-2.13 % of GDP
2026-2.59 % of GDP
6 earlier values, back to 2020
2025-2.88 % of GDP
2024-2.53 % of GDP
2023-3.52 % of GDP
2022-4.19 % of GDP
2021-4.13 % of GDP
2020-2.76 % of GDP
Data release 2026_08_27_1049, published 30 Sept 2026.