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Source: World Bank

Current account balance (annual): latest observations by country
Date	France	Germany	South Africa
Dec 31, 2002	17,651,008,712.01	36,048,328,220.84	1,009,383,967.42
Dec 31, 2003	15,984,849,589.33	31,897,635,178.98	-1,541,574,878.82
Dec 31, 2004	9,166,417,134.84	121,701,352,904.62	-6,413,747,384.11
Dec 31, 2005	-142,691,013.41	127,280,060,467.66	-8,015,417,922.76
Dec 31, 2006	514,325,562.52	168,336,119,584.97	-12,154,724,637.79
Dec 31, 2007	-8,718,514,442.63	227,002,225,170.45	-16,193,848,408.83
Dec 31, 2008	-28,163,013,357.78	205,935,399,680.58	-16,395,139,537.11
Dec 31, 2009	-22,099,585,073.58	196,899,426,426.01	-7,863,255,557.7
Dec 31, 2010	-22,031,068,187.76	193,746,259,300.43	-5,421,631,418.06
Dec 31, 2011	-29,508,603,051.68	232,921,359,677.97	-9,254,146,535.7
Dec 31, 2012	-32,875,102,689.53	252,467,529,371.68	-20,346,176,599.85
Dec 31, 2013	-16,839,875,354.22	249,633,904,328.49	-21,400,789,698.6
Dec 31, 2014	-27,546,084,274.41	285,237,198,984.34	-18,344,938,660.44
Dec 31, 2015	-8,170,801,718.91	277,320,527,052.8	-14,944,186,632.13
Dec 31, 2016	-13,306,414,663.57	314,857,603,893.82	-8,521,994,957.01
Dec 31, 2017	-12,287,162,187.78	304,192,789,523.71	-9,056,996,805.9
Dec 31, 2018	-20,463,239,633.65	342,181,727,697.51	-12,159,926,617.74
Dec 31, 2019	15,992,675,264.4	311,830,319,405	-10,200,410,538.59
Dec 31, 2020	-53,041,563,679.74	250,193,181,663.21	6,771,399,115.52
Dec 31, 2021	7,245,173,502.32	301,386,469,208.01	15,843,620,102.39
Dec 31, 2022	-40,031,107,427.25	172,820,108,195.7	-1,207,228,550.22
Dec 31, 2023	-28,503,147,212.91	251,070,777,589.06	-4,209,439,168.08
Dec 31, 2024	-10,336,880,404.15	276,159,859,965.21	-2,578,559,235.52
Dec 31, 2025	-11,152,257,703.26	224,632,916,868.02	-1,805,993,308.7