Current account balance in Samoa

The current account balance of Samoa was 6.9% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest since 1998.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1977 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Samoa, 2025 6.9% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +1.4percentage points 2024: 5.6%

Current account balance in Samoa 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), 2004 to 2025
Period Samoa
2025 6.9%
2024 5.6%
2023 3.8%
2022 -8.3%
2021 -13.3%
2020 -8.7%
2019 3.7%
2018 2.7%
2017 -1.1%
2016 -4.6%
2015 -1.5%
2014 -5.8%
2013 -5.6%
2012 -1.0%
2011 -10.9%
2010 -9.0%
2009 -1.8%
2008 -8.5%
2007 -8.0%
2006 -15.3%
2005 -10.0%
2004 -6.4%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +1.4 percentage points from 5.6% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -1.5%, 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 Samoa
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