Current account balance in Nepal

The current account balance of Nepal was 10.7% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1976.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1976 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Nepal, 2025 10.7% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +6.8percentage points 2024: 3.9%

Current account balance in Nepal 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 Nepal
2025 10.7%
2024 3.9%
2023 2.5%
2022 -5.8%
2021 -14.5%
2020 -0.3%
2019 -5.1%
2018 -8.3%
2017 -3.6%
2016 -0.7%
2015 10.0%
2014 2.2%
2013 5.2%
2012 2.7%
2011 1.3%
2010 -0.8%
2009 0.2%
2008 5.8%
2007 0.1%
2006 1.7%
2005 1.9%
2004 1.4%
2003 2.8%
2002 3.6%
2001 -2.7%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +6.8 percentage points from 3.9% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 10.0%, 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
1976 to 2025 for Nepal
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