Official data
Nicaragua: current account by year, 2000–2025
Current account balance, % of GDP
Latest year, 2025: 9.5%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare the current account balance since 2000 across Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.
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 | 9.5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2023 | 8.3 |
| 2022 | -2.9 |
| 2021 | -2.8 |
| 2020 | 3.8 |
| 2019 | 5.9 |
| 2018 | -1.8 |
| 2017 | -7.2 |
| 2016 | -8.5 |
| 2015 | -9.9 |
| 2014 | -8 |
| 2013 | -12.6 |
| 2012 | -11.7 |
| 2011 | -11.9 |
| 2010 | -8.9 |
| 2009 | -8.5 |
| 2008 | -17.1 |
| 2007 | -16.3 |
| 2006 | -13.1 |
| 2005 | -12.4 |
| 2004 | -11.9 |
| 2003 | -13.3 |
| 2002 | -15 |
| 2001 | -15.4 |
| 2000 | -18.3 |