Current account balance in Peru

The current account balance of Peru was 3.6% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest since 1979.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1977 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Peru, 2025 3.6% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +1.2percentage points 2024: 2.4%

Current account balance in Peru 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 Peru
2025 3.6%
2024 2.4%
2023 0.5%
2022 -4.1%
2021 -2.3%
2020 0.7%
2019 -0.7%
2018 -1.3%
2017 -1.1%
2016 -2.4%
2015 -4.8%
2014 -4.4%
2013 -4.9%
2012 -2.9%
2011 -2.0%
2010 -2.4%
2009 -0.6%
2008 -4.4%
2007 1.4%
2006 3.2%
2005 1.5%
2004 0.0%
2003 -1.6%
2002 -2.0%
2001 -2.3%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +1.2 percentage points from 2.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -4.8%, the figure has changed by +8.4 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 Peru
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