United States

Current account balance

Name: Current account balance data for United States
Creator: World Bank
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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.

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Frequencyannual · +1Transformlevel

Source: World Bank · BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS:US

Stored official data

Current account balance - United States in United States was -4.12% on January 1, 2024, lower by 0.72% (-21.2%) from the prior observation. Charted from annual observations in % of gdp.

Latest-4.12%

YoY-21.24%

10Y Avg-2.77%

Latest observationJanuary 1, 2024

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Min-5.91%

Mean-2.15%

Max1.06%

Latest observationJanuary 1, 2024

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Tier 1 - critical

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World Bank Open Data

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BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS:US

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Stored · 2024-01-01

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ComparabilityReal, 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.Provider comparability note: Check provider dimensions, units, and methodological notes before using this series as a model input.Revision evidence is not a full historical vintage archive: Use this as current-value or captured-forward evidence unless the series is explicitly labelled source-native vintage.

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QualitySource authority: 100/100. Source kind is classified as official multilateral.Methodology completeness: 100/100. 100% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, and revision fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 90/100. 55 observations available; latest observation 2024-01-01; platform fetch 2026-06-14T22:47:55.950Z; release status none; data status liveRevision and vintage depth: 35/100. This provider currently exposes only the latest published values in Macro by Mark.

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CitationCurrent account balance - United States (World Bank Indicators: BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS, United States, retrieved Jun 14, 2026)

Retrieved Jun 14, 2026

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Series details

SourceBalance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Development Indicators Database, World Bank (WB); National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

CategoryEconomy & Growth

FrequencyAnnual

Unit% of GDP

Latest observationJanuary 1, 2024

Platform last fetchJune 14, 2026

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Current account balance (% of GDP)

The reading right now

As of January 2024, Current account balance for United States stood at -4.12%. That is down 0.72 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged -3.33%, ranging from a low of -4.12% in January 2024 to a high of -2.07% in January 2019. The current reading sits 1.4 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of -2.77%.

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