Cape Verde vs Samoa: Current account balance

Cape Verde
107.77 million BoP, current US$
in 2025
Samoa
89.26 million BoP, current US$
in 2025
Cape Verde rank
68th
Samoa rank
69th

Current account balance over time

  • Cape Verde
  • Samoa
-300.0M-200.0M-100.0M0100.0M197720012025

How they compare

Cape Verde currently reports 107.77 million BoP, current US$ against 89.26 million BoP, current US$ in Samoa, a difference of 18.50 million BoP, current US$.

That makes Cape Verde's figure about 1.2 times Samoa's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1977 it was Cape Verde ahead.

Globally, Cape Verde ranks 68th and Samoa ranks 69th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Current account balance (BoP, current US$)
Unit
BoP, current US$
Source
Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
200 places, 7,806 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

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 in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.