Sri Lanka — Current account (% of GDP)
% of GDP · Annual · 1947–2025 · 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.
In Sri Lanka, the current account reading was 1.58% of GDP in 2025, compared with 1.21% of GDP in 2024. The period change was +0.37 percentage points. The latest reading was above the selected 10-year average of −1.2% of GDP.
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Latest observations
2015–2025
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.58 % of GDP |
| 2024 | 1.21 % of GDP |
| 2023 | 1.71 % of GDP |
| 2022 | -1.95 % of GDP |
| 2021 | -3.71 % of GDP |
6 earlier values, back to 2015
| 2020 | -1.41 % of GDP |
| 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 |