Current account balance in Lesotho

The current account balance of Lesotho was 0.1% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1975 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Lesotho, 2025 0.1% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −4.1percentage points 2024: 4.1%

Current account balance in Lesotho 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 Lesotho
2025 0.1%
2024 4.1%
2023 -7.7%
2022 -11.2%
2021 -8.1%
2020 -4.3%
2019 -6.2%
2018 -5.7%
2017 -13.6%
2016 -11.2%
2015 -5.7%
2014 -8.4%
2013 -10.8%
2012 -18.8%
2011 -11.9%
2010 -11.0%
2009 -2.9%
2008 15.7%
2007 18.1%
2006 12.0%
2005 5.7%
2004 1.8%
2003 -1.5%
2002 8.2%
2001 3.5%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −4.1 percentage points from 4.1% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -5.7%, the figure has changed by +5.8 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 Lesotho
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