Current account balance in Cayman Islands

The current account balance of Cayman Islands was -8.8% of GDP in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2016.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 2016 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Cayman Islands, 2024 -8.8% % of GDP
Change from 2023 +0.9percentage points 2023: -9.7%
Position in 2024 147th of 168 See the full ranking

Current account balance in Cayman Islands 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), 2016 to 2024
Period Cayman Islands
2024 -8.8%
2023 -9.7%
2022 -11.3%
2021 -13.1%
2020 -16.3%
2019 -10.9%
2018 -16.8%
2017 -16.9%
2016 -14.4%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.9 percentage points from -9.7% in 2023.
  • Since 2016, when it was -14.4%, the figure has changed by +5.6 percentage points.
  • Among the 168 countries with data for 2024, Cayman Islands has the 147th highest value.

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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
2016 to 2024 for Cayman Islands
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