Nigeria Current Account Balance
Nigeria current account balance data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 4.83%.
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Nigeria · current account balance data as percent of GDP.
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Nigeria recorded 4.83% for Current Account Balance in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 2.72 percentage points, from 7.54% to 4.83%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (1.52%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was -2.67% in 2020 and the high was 7.54% in 2024.