Official data
United Arab Emirates: current account by year, 2000–2025
Current account balance, % of GDP
Latest year, 2025: 13.3%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare the current account balance since 2000 across United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and India.
Method
Official annual series (2000–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series BCA_NGDPD directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2000 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws each year as a bar around zero.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- BCA_NGDPD
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.3 |
| 2024 | 15 |
| 2023 | 13.9 |
| 2022 | 13 |
| 2021 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 5.9 |
| 2019 | 8.6 |
| 2018 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 6.8 |
| 2016 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 12.8 |
| 2013 | 17.9 |
| 2012 | 18.6 |
| 2011 | 11.8 |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2009 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 7.1 |
| 2007 | 7.6 |
| 2006 | 17.3 |
| 2005 | 13.2 |
| 2004 | 6.4 |
| 2003 | 5.8 |
| 2002 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 9.1 |
| 2000 | 16.3 |