Current account balance in Qatar

The current account balance of Qatar was 14.8% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 2011 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Qatar, 2025 14.8% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −2.7percentage points 2024: 17.5%

Current account balance in Qatar 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), 2011 to 2025
Period Qatar
2025 14.8%
2024 17.5%
2023 17.1%
2022 26.8%
2021 14.6%
2020 -2.1%
2019 2.4%
2018 9.1%
2017 4.0%
2016 -5.5%
2015 8.5%
2014 24.0%
2013 30.4%
2012 33.2%
2011 31.1%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −2.7 percentage points from 17.5% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 8.5%, the figure has changed by +6.3 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
2011 to 2025 for Qatar
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