Current account balance in Guinea-Bissau

The current account balance of Guinea-Bissau was -7.4% of GDP in 2024.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1982 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Guinea-Bissau, 2024 -7.4% % of GDP
Change from 2023 +0.4percentage points 2023: -7.7%
Position in 2024 138th of 168 See the full ranking

Current account balance in Guinea-Bissau 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 2024
Period Guinea-Bissau
2024 -7.4%
2023 -7.7%
2022 -7.9%
2021 -0.7%
2020 -2.3%
2019 -8.0%
2018 -3.5%
2017 0.3%
2016 1.4%
2015 1.8%
2014 0.6%
2013 -4.7%
2012 -7.9%
2011 -1.2%
2010 -7.5%
2009 -5.3%
2008 -3.0%
2007 -4.1%
2006 -6.3%
2005 -1.6%
2004 2.4%
2003 -0.1%
2002 -0.3%
2001 -2.7%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.4 percentage points from -7.7% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 0.6%, the figure has changed by −7.9 percentage points.
  • Among the 168 countries with data for 2024, Guinea-Bissau has the 138th 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
1982 to 2024 for Guinea-Bissau
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