Burkina Faso recorded a Current Account deficit of 5 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2023. Current Account to GDP in Burkina Faso averaged -5.47 percent of GDP from 1974 until 2023, reaching an all time high of 3.80 percent of GDP in 2020 and a record low of -13.20 percent of GDP in 2000. source: African Development Bank Group
Current Account to GDP in Burkina Faso is expected to reach -6.50 percent of GDP by the end of 2024, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Burkina Faso Current Account to GDP is projected to trend around -5.30 percent of GDP in 2025 and -4.50 percent of GDP in 2026, according to our econometric models.