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Kenya — 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 latest current account reading for Kenya was −2.11% of GDP in 2025. The previous reading was −1.29% of GDP in 2024; the period change was −0.83 percentage points.

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Latest observations

2020–2031

PeriodValue
2031-3.23 % of GDP
2030-3.21 % of GDP
2029-3.33 % of GDP
2028-3.44 % of GDP
2027-3.73 % of GDP
7 earlier values, back to 2020
2026-4.07 % of GDP
2025-2.11 % of GDP
2024-1.29 % of GDP
2023-2.55 % of GDP
2022-4.2 % of GDP
2021-4.6 % of GDP
2020-3.27 % of GDP
Data release 2026_10_06_0823, published 6 Oct 2026.