Current account balance in Uruguay

The current account balance of Uruguay was -0.5% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest since 2019.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1978 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Uruguay, 2025 -0.5% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +0.3percentage points 2024: -0.8%

Current account balance in Uruguay 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 Uruguay
2025 -0.5%
2024 -0.8%
2023 -3.0%
2022 -3.5%
2021 -2.4%
2020 -0.6%
2019 1.3%
2018 -0.5%
2017 0.0%
2016 0.8%
2015 -0.3%
2014 -3.0%
2013 -3.3%
2012 -3.8%
2011 -2.6%
2010 -1.7%
2009 -1.2%
2008 -5.6%
2007 -0.9%
2006 -2.0%
2005 0.2%
2004 0.0%
2003 -0.7%
2002 2.8%
2001 -2.4%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from -0.8% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -0.3%, the figure has changed by −0.2 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
1978 to 2025 for Uruguay
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