Euro Area Current Account

Euro Area Current Account

Euro Area Current Account

Current Account Balance in Euro Area

The current account balance averaged 2.2% of GDP in the decade to 2022. The 2022 reading was -0.7% of GDP. For more current account information, visit our dedicated page.

Euro Area Current Account Chart

Note: This chart displays Current Account Balance (% of GDP) for Euro Area from 2014 to 2023.
Source: Macrobond.

Euro Area Current Account Data

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Current Account Balance (% of GDP) 2.5 1.8 2.5 -0.1 1.7
Current Account Balance (EUR bn) 300 206 318 -9 242
Consensus Forecasts and Projections for the next ten years

How should you choose a forecaster if some are too optimistic while others are too pessimistic? FocusEconomics collects European current account projections for the next ten years from a panel of 32 analysts at the leading national, regional and global forecast institutions. These projections are then validated by our in-house team of economists and data analysts and averaged to provide one Consensus Forecast you can rely on for each indicator. By averaging all forecasts, upside and downside forecasting errors tend to cancel each other out, leading to the most reliable current account forecast available for European current account.

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