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Ethiopia — Current account (% of GDP)

% of GDP · Annual · 1977–2031 · 55 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 −0.94% of GDP in 2025. Against −2.53% of GDP in 2024, the period change was +1.59 percentage points.

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Latest observations

2021–2031

PeriodValue
2031-2.6 % of GDP
2030-2.13 % of GDP
2029-2.19 % of GDP
2028-2.13 % of GDP
2027-1.86 % of GDP
6 earlier values, back to 2021
2026-2.38 % of GDP
2025-0.94 % of GDP
2024-2.53 % of GDP
2023-3.52 % of GDP
2022-4.19 % of GDP
2021-4.13 % of GDP
Data release 2026_10_06_0823, published 6 Oct 2026.