Current account balance in South Sudan

The current account balance of South Sudan was 7.9% of GDP in 2023. The value for 2023 is the highest since 2017.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 2014 to 2023 Source: World Bank
South Sudan, 2023 7.9% % of GDP
Change from 2022 +19.2percentage points 2022: -11.2%

Current account balance in South Sudan 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), 2014 to 2023
Period South Sudan
2023 7.9%
2022 -11.2%
2021 -0.1%
2020 -35.0%
2019 -4.2%
2018 -9.0%
2017 8.3%
2016 -5.8%
2015 -4.2%
2014 -5.7%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +19.2 percentage points from -11.2% in 2022.
  • Since 2014, when it was -5.7%, the figure has changed by +13.6 percentage points.

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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
2014 to 2023 for South Sudan
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