Current account balance in Cabo Verde

The current account balance of Cabo Verde was 3.6% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1980 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Cabo Verde, 2025 3.6% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −0.4percentage points 2024: 3.9%

Current account balance in Cabo Verde over time

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% of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Current account balance (World Bank) (% of GDP), 2001 to 2025
Period Cabo Verde
2025 3.6%
2024 3.9%
2023 -2.8%
2022 -3.5%
2021 -12.2%
2020 -15.7%
2019 -1.0%
2018 -4.4%
2017 -7.0%
2016 -3.5%
2015 -2.9%
2014 -8.3%
2013 -5.3%
2012 -12.7%
2011 -14.9%
2010 -12.2%
2009 -13.2%
2008 -10.5%
2007 -12.0%
2006 -7.5%
2005 -4.2%
2004 -14.1%
2003 -11.1%
2002 -11.5%
2001 -9.9%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.4 percentage points from 3.9% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -2.9%, the figure has changed by +6.4 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1980 to 2025 for Cabo Verde
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics