Luxembourg vs Portugal: Current account balance

Luxembourg
5.29 billion BoP, current US$
in 2025
Portugal
6.51 billion BoP, current US$
in 2024
Luxembourg rank
31st
Portugal rank
30th

Current account balance over time

  • Luxembourg
  • Portugal
-30.0B-20.0B-10.0B010.0B197520002025

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 6.51 billion BoP, current US$ against 5.29 billion BoP, current US$ in Luxembourg, a difference of 1.22 billion BoP, current US$.

That makes Portugal's figure about 1.2 times Luxembourg's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 26 shared years of data; in 1999 it was Luxembourg ahead.

Globally, Luxembourg ranks 31st and Portugal ranks 30th 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.