Ireland — Current account (% of GDP)
% of GDP · Annual · 1938–2031 · 94 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.
In Ireland, the current account reading was 8.14% of GDP in 2025, compared with 16.2% of GDP in 2024. The period change was −8.02 percentage points. The latest reading was above the selected 10-year average of 2.87% of GDP.
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- Annual data, 1938–2031
- Quarterly data, 1990–2027
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Latest observations
2013–2031
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2031 | 7.73 % of GDP |
| 2030 | 8.02 % of GDP |
| 2029 | 7.96 % of GDP |
| 2028 | 7.97 % of GDP |
| 2027 | 7.31 % of GDP |
14 earlier values, back to 2013
| 2026 | 7.86 % of GDP |
| 2025 | 8.14 % of GDP |
| 2024 | 16.2 % of GDP |
| 2023 | 7.03 % of GDP |
| 2022 | 8.76 % of GDP |
| 2021 | 12.2 % of GDP |
| 2020 | -7.05 % of GDP |
| 2019 | -20.7 % of GDP |
| 2018 | 4.29 % of GDP |
| 2017 | 1.14 % of GDP |
| 2016 | -1.25 % of GDP |
| 2015 | 6.12 % of GDP |
| 2014 | 2.06 % of GDP |
| 2013 | 2.4 % of GDP |