Current account balance in Timor-Leste

The current account balance of Timor-Leste was -36.9% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2006.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 2006 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Timor-Leste, 2025 -36.9% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −4.5percentage points 2024: -32.4%

Current account balance in Timor-Leste 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), 2006 to 2025
Period Timor-Leste
2025 -36.9%
2024 -32.4%
2023 -9.3%
2022 15.2%
2021 54.8%
2020 22.5%
2019 22.2%
2018 -12.3%
2017 -21.4%
2016 -32.5%
2015 14.1%
2014 76.4%
2013 171.2%
2012 235.8%
2011 225.0%
2010 189.5%
2009 176.8%
2008 311.7%
2007 216.9%
2006 119.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −4.5 percentage points from -32.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 14.1%, the figure has changed by −51.0 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
2006 to 2025 for Timor-Leste
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