Current account balance in Singapore

The current account balance of Singapore was 16.7% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1972 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Singapore, 2025 16.7% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −0.5percentage points 2024: 17.2%

Current account balance in Singapore 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 Singapore
2025 16.7%
2024 17.2%
2023 16.4%
2022 18.9%
2021 19.3%
2020 17.7%
2019 15.5%
2018 15.7%
2017 18.5%
2016 18.0%
2015 18.7%
2014 18.0%
2013 15.7%
2012 17.6%
2011 22.2%
2010 22.9%
2009 16.4%
2008 15.1%
2007 27.1%
2006 26.9%
2005 23.3%
2004 19.3%
2003 24.3%
2002 14.9%
2001 14.4%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.5 percentage points from 17.2% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 18.7%, the figure has changed by −2.0 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
1972 to 2025 for Singapore
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