Countries with the Biggest Current Account Surplus 2025
About This Dataset
Countries with the Biggest Current Account Surplus 2025
Countries ranked by current account balance (% of GDP) in 2025, using World Bank figures for the 97 countries that reported that year. Kuwait leads on 22.70, ahead of Brunei (18.01) and Tajikistan (17.10). The current account balance, the difference between what a country earns from and pays to the rest of the world, as a share of GDP. A large surplus can mean strong exports or weak domestic demand; the measure does not distinguish them.
Analysis
Kuwait (22.70), Brunei (18.01) and Tajikistan (17.10) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 22.70 down to 3.58, a spread of 19.12. Kuwait is 1.26 times Brunei, the country in second place. 6 of the 20 reach half the leading figure, 11.35 or more. The chart shows the twenty highest of 97 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
Source:
World Bank
Key Findings
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Kuwait leads in Current Account Balance (% of GDP) with 22.70 in 2025.
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Average Current Account Balance (% of GDP) in 2025: 9 · median: 6.
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Gap in 2025: Kuwait is 6.3× larger than Peru.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2025 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Current Account Balance (% of GDP)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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