Current account balance (annual): compare countries

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Current account balance (annual) by country

Annual, US dollars

Source: World Bank

Current account balance (annual): latest observations by country
Date	China	United States	Germany	Lebanon
Dec 31, 2002	35,421,997,979.65	-445,003,000,000	36,048,328,220.84	-4,540,835,503.4
Dec 31, 2003	43,051,582,861.33	-510,497,000,000	31,897,635,178.98	-5,138,387,089.29
Dec 31, 2004	68,940,960,688.56	-622,931,000,000	121,701,352,904.62	-4,405,595,914.47
Dec 31, 2005	132,378,493,766.4	-735,664,000,000	127,280,060,467.66	-2,748,000,878.08
Dec 31, 2006	231,843,041,064.41	-803,196,000,000	168,336,119,584.97	-1,116,363,496.34
Dec 31, 2007	353,182,677,237.32	-721,388,000,000	227,002,225,170.45	-1,604,778,255.85
Dec 31, 2008	420,568,516,143.54	-676,558,000,000	205,935,399,680.58	-4,102,657,996.05
Dec 31, 2009	243,256,567,919.62	-363,338,000,000	196,899,426,426.01	-6,740,936,422.37
Dec 31, 2010	237,810,389,607.95	-413,095,000,000	193,746,259,300.43	-7,552,051,024.24
Dec 31, 2011	136,096,761,577.55	-433,993,000,000	232,921,359,677.97	-5,523,546,174.7
Dec 31, 2012	215,391,747,469.44	-395,311,000,000	252,467,529,371.68	-10,316,751,674
Dec 31, 2013	148,203,949,879.88	-321,833,000,000	249,633,904,328.49	-11,959,785,597
Dec 31, 2014	236,046,577,873.63	-350,741,000,000	285,237,198,984.34	-12,615,309,907
Dec 31, 2015	293,022,317,035.55	-390,780,000,000	277,320,527,052.8	-8,541,780,207
Dec 31, 2016	191,337,035,941.99	-380,011,000,000	314,857,603,893.82	-10,473,958,019
Dec 31, 2017	188,676,126,121.16	-348,862,000,000	304,192,789,523.71	-12,133,902,089
Dec 31, 2018	24,130,909,184.5	-419,443,000,000	342,181,727,697.51	-13,366,895,810.87
Dec 31, 2019	90,267,369,315.18	-404,302,000,000	311,830,319,405	-11,264,596,490.48
Dec 31, 2020	223,715,895,433.05	-589,622,000,000	250,193,181,663.21	-2,778,566,572.15
Dec 31, 2021	297,407,494,180.59	-855,203,000,000	301,386,469,208.01	-4,556,486,559.35
Dec 31, 2022	404,141,947,756.88	-972,359,000,000	172,820,108,195.7	-7,264,685,215.37
Dec 31, 2023	257,029,393,581.82	-931,394,000,000	251,070,777,589.06	-5,642,829,132.74
Dec 31, 2024	462,283,038,233.16	-1,198,628,000,000	276,159,859,965.21	—
Dec 31, 2025	735,021,965,565.35	-1,177,068,000,000	224,632,916,868.02	—