Current account balance in Kuwait

The current account balance of Kuwait was 22.7% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1975 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Kuwait, 2025 22.7% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −6.3percentage points 2024: 29.0%

Current account balance in Kuwait 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 Kuwait
2025 22.7%
2024 29.0%
2023 31.1%
2022 34.4%
2021 23.6%
2020 19.8%
2019 21.5%
2018 17.3%
2017 6.4%
2016 0.6%
2015 7.5%
2014 33.2%
2013 39.9%
2012 45.5%
2011 42.9%
2010 32.0%
2009 27.3%
2008 40.9%
2007 36.1%
2006 44.6%
2005 37.2%
2004 26.1%
2003 19.7%
2002 11.2%
2001 23.9%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −6.3 percentage points from 29.0% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 7.5%, the figure has changed by +15.2 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 Kuwait
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