Current account balance in Denmark

The current account balance of Denmark was 12.6% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1975.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1975 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Denmark, 2025 12.6% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +1.1percentage points 2024: 11.5%
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2025 0.8% Middle value of 26 countries

Current account balance in Denmark 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 Denmark
2025 12.6%
2024 11.5%
2023 9.7%
2022 11.2%
2021 8.6%
2020 7.3%
2019 7.5%
2018 6.3%
2017 7.4%
2016 7.2%
2015 8.0%
2014 8.3%
2013 7.4%
2012 6.0%
2011 6.3%
2010 6.4%
2009 3.7%
2008 2.9%
2007 1.5%
2006 3.3%
2005 4.2%
2004 2.4%
2003 3.2%
2002 1.9%
2001 2.9%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +1.1 percentage points from 11.5% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 8.0%, the figure has changed by +4.6 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
1975 to 2025 for Denmark
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