Current account balance in Eswatini

The current account balance of Eswatini was 2.4% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1974 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Eswatini, 2025 2.4% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +0.3percentage points 2024: 2.1%

Current account balance in Eswatini 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 Eswatini
2025 2.4%
2024 2.1%
2023 2.2%
2022 -3.0%
2021 2.6%
2020 6.6%
2019 3.8%
2018 1.3%
2017 6.1%
2016 8.0%
2015 13.6%
2014 12.0%
2013 10.9%
2012 5.1%
2011 -6.0%
2010 -8.9%
2009 -11.8%
2008 -7.1%
2007 -1.9%
2006 -6.1%
2005 -3.3%
2004 2.6%
2003 4.2%
2002 2.4%
2001 0.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from 2.1% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 13.6%, the figure has changed by −11.3 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
1974 to 2025 for Eswatini
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