Current account balance in Portugal

The current account balance of Portugal was 1.2% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1975 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Portugal, 2025 1.2% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −1.3percentage points 2024: 2.5%
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2025 0.8% Middle value of 26 countries

Current account balance in Portugal 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 Portugal
2025 1.2%
2024 2.5%
2023 0.6%
2022 -2.1%
2021 -0.7%
2020 -0.6%
2019 0.8%
2018 0.7%
2017 1.6%
2016 1.4%
2015 0.5%
2014 0.3%
2013 1.5%
2012 -1.5%
2011 -6.1%
2010 -10.3%
2009 -10.3%
2008 -11.9%
2007 -9.7%
2006 -10.2%
2005 -9.6%
2004 -8.0%
2003 -6.7%
2002 -8.3%
2001 -10.4%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −1.3 percentage points from 2.5% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 0.5%, the figure has changed by +0.7 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 Portugal
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