Current Account Balance Forecast

South America Ranking

percent of GDPSource: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1	Guyana	24.49	2027	1	23.75
2	Venezuela	6.5	2023	2	9
3	Argentina	0.69	2027	3	0.59
4	Paraguay	0.52	2025	4	0.47
5 ↑	Uruguay	-0.97	2026	6	-0.69
6 ↓	Suriname	-1.13	2027	5	-0.46
7	Peru	-1.36	2027	7	-1.36
8	Brazil	-2.14	2027	8	-2.02
9	Chile	-2.52	2027	9	-2.46
10 ↑	Colombia	-3.89	2025	11	-3.76
11 ↓	Bolivia	-3.99	2027	10	-3.56

Definition of Current Account Balance Forecast

The current account is all transactions other than those in financial and capital items. The major classifications are goods and services, income and current transfers. The series includes actual historical values for past years and forecast values for the current and the next few years.