Data · Trade & foreign investment
Current account balance (% of GDP): Vietnam, 1996–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 6.44 % GDP
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Balance of current transactions (transactions in goods and services, earned income and transfer income) between residents and non-residents. The term current account balance is used in the external accounts and is expressed from the perspective of resident units. The term current external balance is used in the national accounts and is expressed from the perspective of the non-resident units, and therefore with the opposite sign. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1996 to 2025 (30 years of data). It moved from -8.19 to 6.44 % GDP, a change of 178.6%. The highest value was 6.44 in 2025 and the lowest -10.92 in 2008. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (% GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.44 |
| 2024 | 6.33 |
| 2023 | 5.95 |
| 2022 | 0.34 |
| 2021 | -1.26 |
| 2020 | 4.34 |
| 2019 | 3.92 |
| 2018 | 1.90 |
| 2017 | -0.59 |
| 2016 | 0.24 |
| 2015 | -0.85 |
| 2014 | 4.01 |
| 2013 | 3.62 |
| 2012 | 4.82 |
| 2011 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | -2.90 |
| 2009 | -6.23 |
| 2008 | -10.92 |
| 2007 | -8.98 |
| 2006 | -0.25 |
| 2005 | -0.97 |
| 2004 | -2.11 |
| 2003 | -4.88 |
| 2002 | -1.72 |
| 2001 | 2.09 |
| 2000 | 3.55 |
| 1999 | 4.10 |
| 1998 | -3.95 |
| 1997 | -5.69 |
| 1996 | -8.19 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 6.44 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 3.02 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | -0.09 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 1.61 |
| Philippines | 2025 | -3.46 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 16.71 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | -3.72 |
| Laos | 2025 | 11.07 |
| Myanmar | 2019 | 0.09 |
| China | 2025 | 3.77 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Current account balance (% of GDP), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name bn_cab_xoka_gd_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.