Current account balance in Panama

The current account balance of Panama was -0.2% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1977 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Panama, 2025 -0.2% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −0.8percentage points 2024: 0.7%

Current account balance in Panama 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 Panama
2025 -0.2%
2024 0.7%
2023 -3.2%
2022 -0.4%
2021 -1.2%
2020 0.2%
2019 -5.1%
2018 -7.9%
2017 -5.8%
2016 -7.5%
2015 -8.7%
2014 -13.0%
2013 -8.7%
2012 -9.0%
2011 -12.7%
2010 -10.3%
2009 -0.8%
2008 -8.9%
2007 -5.4%
2006 -2.5%
2005 -6.4%
2004 -6.9%
2003 -4.2%
2002 -0.9%
2001 -1.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.8 percentage points from 0.7% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -8.7%, the figure has changed by +8.5 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
1977 to 2025 for Panama
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