Current account balance in Egypt

The current account balance of Egypt was -3.8% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1977 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Egypt, 2025 -3.8% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +1.9percentage points 2024: -5.7%

Current account balance in Egypt 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 Egypt
2025 -3.8%
2024 -5.7%
2023 -3.2%
2022 -2.2%
2021 -4.4%
2020 -3.7%
2019 -3.2%
2018 -2.9%
2017 -3.2%
2016 -6.2%
2015 -5.2%
2014 -1.9%
2013 -1.2%
2012 -2.5%
2011 -2.3%
2010 -2.1%
2009 -1.8%
2008 -0.9%
2007 0.3%
2006 2.5%
2005 2.3%
2004 5.0%
2003 4.7%
2002 0.7%
2001 -0.4%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +1.9 percentage points from -5.7% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -5.2%, the figure has changed by +1.4 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
1977 to 2025 for Egypt
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