El Salvador recorded a Current Account deficit of 1.80 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2024. Current Account to GDP in El Salvador averaged -3.38 percent of GDP from 1990 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 1.10 percent of GDP in 2020 and a record low of -8.50 percent of GDP in 2008. source: Consejo Monetario Centroamericanono
Current Account to GDP in El Salvador is expected to reach -2.00 percent of GDP by the end of 2025, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the El Salvador Current Account to GDP is projected to trend around -2.20 percent of GDP in 2026 and -2.50 percent of GDP in 2027, according to our econometric models.