Current account balance in Kiribati

The current account balance of Kiribati was -15.2% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1979 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Kiribati, 2025 -15.2% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +2.1percentage points 2024: -17.4%

Current account balance in Kiribati 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), 2006 to 2025
Period Kiribati
2025 -15.2%
2024 -17.4%
2023 -1.8%
2022 -12.0%
2021 7.1%
2020 32.3%
2019 40.0%
2018 32.9%
2017 31.6%
2016 9.3%
2015 29.4%
2014 28.0%
2013 -5.0%
2012 1.7%
2011 -8.8%
2010 0.1%
2009 -11.8%
2008 -3.6%
2007 -1.8%
2006 -8.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +2.1 percentage points from -17.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 29.4%, the figure has changed by −44.6 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
1979 to 2025 for Kiribati
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