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Current account balance (% of GDP)

-14.2% of GDP▼ 3.28 pts vs 2024

Mozambique · Latest observation 2025

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.

What does the data say?

Current account balance (% of GDP) (Mozambique) is -14.2 % of GDP (2025), 5.66 points lower than in 2005.

Over all 21 observations since 2005, the highest was -7.3 (2007) and the lowest -40.7 (2012).

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.

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Data source

Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS)
Status
Fetched live on the last refresh
Latest observation
2025
Last updated
2026-10-17
Source published
2026-10-08
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.
Country:
-50-40-30-20-10020052025High -7.3Low -40.7
Latest
-14.2
Change
−5.66 pts
High
-7.3 2007
Low
-40.7 2012
Average
-20.9

Current account balance (% of GDP) is -14.2 % of GDP (2025), 5.66 points lower than in 2005.

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.

What does the data say?

Current account balance (% of GDP) (Mozambique) is -14.2 % of GDP (2025), 5.66 points lower than in 2005.

Over all 21 observations since 2005, the highest was -7.3 (2007) and the lowest -40.7 (2012).

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.

Observed facts are above; these are possible implications, not measured effects.

Countries — 2025

CountryLatestYear on year
China3.8 % of GDP+52.7%
Botswana2.9 % of GDP−165.0%
Eswatini2.4 % of GDP+14.1%
Portugal1.2 % of GDP−53.2%
Angola0.3 % of GDP−94.4%
South Africa-0.4 % of GDP−34.2%
India-0.5 % of GDP−39.9%
Kenya-2.1 % of GDP+20.8%
Brazil-2.9 % of GDP−2.1%
Zambia-5.5 % of GDP+23.8%
Malawi-14.0 % of GDP−7.5%
Mozambique-14.2 % of GDP+29.9%
2 more with older observations
Zimbabwe1.22024
Tanzania-3.02024

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Foreign direct investment, net inflows5.76 US$ bn+64.2% · 2025Personal remittances received265 US$ m−0.6% · 2025Total reserves incl. gold3.84 US$ bn+5.7% · 2024

Data source

Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS)
Frequency
Annual
Observations
21 (2005 – 2025) for Mozambique; 14 country in total
Source published
2026-10-08
Last retrieved
2026-10-17
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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