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Current account balance, percent of GDP

The current account is the record of all transactions in the balance of payments covering the exports and imports of goods and services, payments of income, and current transfers between residents of a country and nonresidents.

Source: IMF DataMapper10,556 rowsUpdated: 9/21/2026
current-accounttrademacroeconomicsimf

Quality

92.5

Attribution

International Monetary Fund (IMF DataMapper)

Schema

ColumnTypeDescription
country_codestringIMF country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3).
country_namestringCountry label from the IMF DataMapper country list.
yearintegerCalendar year of the observation.
valuefloatIndicator value for the country and year, as defined by the IMF World Economic Outlook (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of GDP)

Sample rows

country_codecountry_nameyearvalue
ABWAruba1999-25.3
ABWAruba200011.3
ABWAruba200116.4
ABWAruba2002-17
ABWAruba2003-8.2

Use with an LLM

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/imf/imf_current_account_balance" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/imf/imf_current_account_balance").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/imf/imf_current_account_balance

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.