Current account balance (current US$)

Indicator id: current_account_balance · Unit: current US$ · Coverage: 1990-2024

Net balance of a country's transactions with the rest of the world in goods, services, primary income and secondary income (transfers), in current US dollars. A negative value is a deficit, financed by capital inflows, borrowing or reserve drawdown.

Sources

• International Monetary Fund (preferred) -- dataset BOP:NETCD_T.CAB.USD, code NETCD_T.CAB.USD (https://www.imf.org)

Caveats

IMF Balance of Payments (BOP) series; new to Groundfact, no second source to cross-check against yet. Nepal's current account has swung between deficit and surplus depending on remittance inflows, import demand, and (in 2020-21) pandemic-related import compression -- read alongside remittances_gdp_share and trade_gdp_share for what is driving a given year's balance.

Taxonomy

Topic: Economy & Growth, Trade
Themes: economy

Also known as

"current account balance", "current account deficit", "current account surplus", "balance of payments", "external balance"

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