São Tomé and Príncipe — Current account (% of GDP)
% of GDP · Annual · 1974–2030 · 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.
In São Tomé and Príncipe, the current account reading was −3.26% of GDP in 2025, compared with 5.03% of GDP in 2024. The period change was −8.29 percentage points.
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- Annual data, 1974–2030
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Latest observations
2019–2030
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2030 | -3.72 % of GDP |
| 2029 | -3.99 % of GDP |
| 2028 | -4.04 % of GDP |
| 2027 | -3.94 % of GDP |
| 2026 | -3.57 % of GDP |
7 earlier values, back to 2019
| 2025 | -3.26 % of GDP |
| 2024 | 5.03 % of GDP |
| 2023 | 3.03 % of GDP |
| 2022 | -4.73 % of GDP |
| 2021 | -18.2 % of GDP |
| 2020 | -12.6 % of GDP |
| 2019 | -21.8 % of GDP |