Current account balance in Viet Nam

The current account balance of Viet Nam was 6.4% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1996.

Measure: Current account balance (World Bank) Unit: % of GDP Data: 1996 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Viet Nam, 2025 6.4% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +0.1percentage points 2024: 6.3%

Current account balance in Viet Nam 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 Viet Nam
2025 6.4%
2024 6.3%
2023 5.9%
2022 0.3%
2021 -1.3%
2020 4.3%
2019 3.9%
2018 1.9%
2017 -0.6%
2016 0.2%
2015 -0.9%
2014 4.0%
2013 3.6%
2012 4.8%
2011 0.1%
2010 -2.9%
2009 -6.2%
2008 -10.9%
2007 -9.0%
2006 -0.2%
2005 -1.0%
2004 -2.1%
2003 -4.9%
2002 -1.7%
2001 2.1%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.1 percentage points from 6.3% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -0.9%, the figure has changed by +7.3 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
1996 to 2025 for Viet Nam
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