Singapore Current Account (% of GDP)
Singapore's overall balance with the rest of the world, trade in goods and services plus net investment income, as a share of GDP.
16.7%
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1990 to 2025
Source: FRED series SGPBCAGDPBP6PT · IMF Asia and Pacific Regional Economic Outlook, % of GDP, annual.
Singapore Current Account (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Singapore, the current account fell by 0.5pp in 2025, from 17.2% in 2024.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 16.4% in 2023 to 19.3% in 2021.
Its average since 1990 is 17.2%, and the latest reading is below that.
Singapore is 1st of 35 countries in our Current Account to GDP by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF via FRED
- Series
- SGPBCAGDPBP6PT
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
As a major financial and trade hub, this runs a persistently large surplus, that's real, not a data error.
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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