Current account balance in Sweden

The current account balance of Sweden was 6.8% of GDP in 2025.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1970 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Sweden, 2025 6.8% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −0.6percentage points 2024: 7.4%
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2025 0.8% Middle value of 26 countries

Current account balance in Sweden 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 Sweden
2025 6.8%
2024 7.4%
2023 6.2%
2022 4.0%
2021 6.2%
2020 5.7%
2019 5.2%
2018 2.1%
2017 2.2%
2016 2.0%
2015 2.7%
2014 3.4%
2013 4.7%
2012 5.5%
2011 5.5%
2010 5.9%
2009 6.0%
2008 7.9%
2007 8.1%
2006 8.2%
2005 6.0%
2004 6.0%
2003 5.9%
2002 4.7%
2001 6.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.6 percentage points from 7.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 2.7%, the figure has changed by +4.1 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
1970 to 2025 for Sweden
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