Afghanistan Current Account Balance
Afghanistan current account balance data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: -15.72%.
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Afghanistan · 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
Afghanistan recorded -15.72% for Current Account Balance in 2020, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2019, the indicator increased by 4.45 percentage points, from -20.17% to -15.72%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (-19.28%).
Across the five latest available observations (2016–2020), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was -25.87% in 2012 and the high was -12.62% in 2011.