United States

Current account balance

Name: Current account balance data for United States
Creator: FRED
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The current account balance summarizes trade income and cross-border transfers. As a share of GDP, it helps compare external surpluses and deficits across economies.

World Bank FRED

Frequencyannual · +1Transformlevel

Source: FRED · CRBBCAGDPBP6

Stored official data

Current account balance - United States in United States was 6.5B% on October 1, 2008, higher by 10.5B% (+263.2%) from the prior observation. Charted from annual observations in % of gdp in u.s. $.

Latest6496300000.00%

YoY+263.17%

10Y Avg4168785365.85%

Latest observationOctober 1, 2008

Model surprise+4526574225.74%

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Min-7394500000.00%

Mean1272797727.27%

Max11437500000.00%

Latest observationOctober 1, 2008

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Tier 1 - critical

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CRBBCAGDPBP6

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Stored · 2008-10-01

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ComparabilityAggregator is not the statistical authority: Use the source agency, source code, and methodology link when citing or reconciling with official releases.Real, nominal, and chain measures are not interchangeable: Use real growth for cycle analysis, nominal levels for revenue/size questions, and PPP or per-capita variants for welfare comparisons.

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QualitySource authority: 82/100. Aggregator source: useful access layer, but official methodology remains with the originating agency.Methodology completeness: 100/100. 100% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, and revision fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 90/100. 132 observations available; latest observation 2008-10-01; platform fetch 2026-05-20T18:18:13.383Z; release status none; data status liveRevision and vintage depth: 100/100. Point-in-time data via the FRED ALFRED endpoint. Each request returns the values as they were published on the supplied vintage date.

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CitationCurrent account balance - United States (FRED (St. Louis Fed): CRBBCAGDPBP6, United States, retrieved May 20, 2026)

Retrieved May 20, 2026

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Series details

SourceFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)

CategoryTrade

FrequencyAnnual

Unit% of GDP in U.S. $

Latest observationOctober 1, 2008

Platform last fetchMay 20, 2026

Transformslevel, yoy, index 100

About this series

Balance of Payments: Current account balance (credit less debit) for Caribbean

The reading right now

As of October 2008, Current account balance for United States stood at 6.5B%. That is up 10,477,700,000 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 4.5B%, ranging from a low of -4B% in July 2008 to a high of 10.5B% in July 2007. The current reading sits 2,476,185,000 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 4B%.

Computed from the observation series on this page. Numbers update when the underlying provider revises the data.