Current account balance in India

The current account balance of India was -0.5% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1975 to 2025 Source: World Bank
India, 2025 -0.5% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +0.3percentage points 2024: -0.9%
Median of G20 countries, 2025 -0.5% Middle value of 19 countries

Current account balance in India 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 India
2025 -0.5%
2024 -0.9%
2023 -0.9%
2022 -2.4%
2021 -1.1%
2020 1.2%
2019 -1.0%
2018 -2.4%
2017 -1.4%
2016 -0.5%
2015 -1.1%
2014 -1.3%
2013 -2.6%
2012 -5.0%
2011 -3.4%
2010 -3.3%
2009 -2.0%
2008 -2.6%
2007 -0.7%
2006 -1.0%
2005 -1.3%
2004 0.1%
2003 1.4%
2002 1.4%
2001 0.3%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from -0.9% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -1.1%, the figure has changed by +0.6 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 India
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