Current account balance in Ecuador

The current account balance of Ecuador was 5.9% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest since 2000.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1976 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Ecuador, 2025 5.9% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +0.1percentage points 2024: 5.7%

Current account balance in Ecuador 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 Ecuador
2025 5.9%
2024 5.7%
2023 2.0%
2022 1.9%
2021 2.8%
2020 2.0%
2019 -0.6%
2018 -1.6%
2017 -0.4%
2016 0.9%
2015 -2.3%
2014 -0.7%
2013 -1.0%
2012 -0.2%
2011 -0.5%
2010 -2.3%
2009 0.5%
2008 2.9%
2007 3.8%
2006 3.8%
2005 1.2%
2004 -1.4%
2003 -1.2%
2002 -4.5%
2001 -2.4%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.1 percentage points from 5.7% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -2.3%, the figure has changed by +8.1 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
1976 to 2025 for Ecuador
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