Sri Lanka — Current account (% of GDP)

% of GDP · Annual · 1947–2024 · 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.

In Sri Lanka, the current account reading was 1.21% of GDP in 2024, compared with 1.71% of GDP in 2023. The period change was −0.5 percentage points. The latest reading was above the selected 10-year average of −1.58% of GDP.

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Latest observations

2014–2024

PeriodValue
20241.21 % of GDP
20231.71 % of GDP
2022-1.95 % of GDP
2021-3.71 % of GDP
2020-1.41 % of GDP
6 earlier values, back to 2014
2019-2.07 % of GDP
2018-2.96 % of GDP
2017-2.45 % of GDP
2016-1.98 % of GDP
2015-2.21 % of GDP
2014-2.41 % of GDP
Data release 2026_08_27_1049, published 30 Sept 2026.