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Mozambique against its neighbours, Portugal, large emerging economies, Sub-Saharan Africa and the world. All series come from the World Bank, which harmonises definitions across countries; values are in US dollars or ratios, so no currency conversion is applied here.

Current account balance (% of GDP)

What is this?

What the country earns from abroad minus what it pays abroad (trade, income, transfers).

How to read it

  • Negative means more money flows out than in; filled by investment, loans or aid.
  • Unit: % of GDP. Modes: Values shows levels; % change shows year-to-year movement; Indexed sets each country to 100 in the first common year.

What does the data say?

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Why does it matter?

  • Households: Large deficits can pressure the metical.
  • Businesses: Currency availability.
  • Government: External financing needs.
  • Investors: External vulnerability.
  • Mobile money: Remittances are part of this account.

What should I watch?

Data source

Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS)
Status
Fetched live on the last refresh
Latest observation
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Last updated
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Frequency
Annual
Method
Compiled by the World Bank from national statistics offices, the IMF, ILO and other agencies. Definitions are harmonised across countries.
Limitations
Annual. The latest year is often missing or revised. Some series are modelled estimates rather than direct measurements.

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Negative means more money flows out than in; filled by investment, loans or aid.

Limits: dollar values move with exchange rates as well as real activity. Purchasing-power (PPP) comparisons use the World Bank's own PPP series only and are not applied to commodity prices or exchange rates. Retail prices are not compared across countries here: products, package sizes, taxes and market coverage differ too much for a fair like-for-like comparison from the available data. Exchange rates are each country's own currency per US dollar and are not comparable as levels, so they are left out.