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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Latest observations

2019–2030

PeriodValue
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
20245.03 % of GDP
20233.03 % of GDP
2022-4.73 % of GDP
2021-18.2 % of GDP
2020-12.6 % of GDP
2019-21.8 % of GDP
Data release 2026_08_27_1049, published 30 Sept 2026.