Current account balance in Uganda

The current account balance of Uganda was -5.2% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest since 2017.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1980 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Uganda, 2025 -5.2% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +3.3percentage points 2024: -8.4%

Current account balance in Uganda 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 Uganda
2025 -5.2%
2024 -8.4%
2023 -7.4%
2022 -8.9%
2021 -8.9%
2020 -9.6%
2019 -7.4%
2018 -6.3%
2017 -4.9%
2016 -2.9%
2015 -5.2%
2014 -6.6%
2013 -6.1%
2012 -6.1%
2011 -7.5%
2010 -6.0%
2009 -4.2%
2008 -8.5%
2007 -4.7%
2006 -3.2%
2005 0.6%
2004 0.0%
2003 -0.6%
2002 -2.5%
2001 -5.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +3.3 percentage points from -8.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -5.2%, the figure has changed by 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
1980 to 2025 for Uganda
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