Current account balance in Jamaica

The current account balance of Jamaica was 1.5% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1976 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Jamaica, 2025 1.5% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −1.5percentage points 2024: 2.9%

Current account balance in Jamaica 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 Jamaica
2025 1.5%
2024 2.9%
2023 2.7%
2022 -0.7%
2021 0.9%
2020 -1.0%
2019 -1.8%
2018 -1.4%
2017 -2.5%
2016 -0.3%
2015 -2.9%
2014 -8.0%
2013 -9.5%
2012 -9.7%
2011 -14.3%
2010 -7.1%
2009 -9.3%
2008 -20.4%
2007 -15.9%
2006 -9.9%
2005 -9.5%
2004 -4.9%
2003 -8.2%
2002 -11.1%
2001 -8.3%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −1.5 percentage points from 2.9% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -2.9%, the figure has changed by +4.4 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
1976 to 2025 for Jamaica
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