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DEFINITION:
The current account balance is the difference between a country’s current receipts from and its current payments to the rest of the world. These current transactions consist of exports and imports of goods; exports and imports of services such as tourism, international freight and passenger transport, insurance and financial services; income consisting of wages and salaries, dividends, interest and other property income; and transfers. Note that property income includes retained earnings of foreign-owned subsidiaries. All earnings of foreign-owned subsidiaries are treated as if they were remitted abroad and the part which is actually retained in the country where the subsidiary is located is then shown as a re-investment flow in the capital account.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH |
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1 | Norway | 15.92% | 2009 | |
2 | Switzerland | 13.35% | 2009 | |
3 | Luxembourg | 9.85% | 2009 | |
4 | Sweden | 8.35% | 2009 | |
5 | Netherlands | 7.67% | 2009 | |
6 | Germany | 7.5% | 2009 | |
7 | Japan | 4.82% | 2009 | |
8 | Finland | 4.6% | 2009 | |
9 | Austria | 3.17% | 2009 | |
10 | Belgium | 1.67% | 2009 | |
11 | Denmark | 1.11% | 2009 | |
12 | Canada | 0.886% | 2009 | |
13 | South Korea | 0.614% | 2009 | |
Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile) | 0.075% | 2009 | ||
High income OECD countries average (profile) | -0.522% | 2009 | ||
14 | Mexico | -1.001% | 2009 | |
15 | France | -1.18% | 2009 | |
16 | Czech Republic | -1.774% | 2009 | |
17 | Italy | -2.434% | 2009 | |
18 | United Kingdom | -3.752% | 2009 | |
19 | Poland | -4.769% | 2009 | |
20 | United States | -5.321% | 2009 | |
21 | Slovakia | -5.326% | 2009 | |
22 | Ireland | -5.399% | 2009 | |
23 | Turkey | -5.736% | 2009 | |
24 | Australia | -6.059% | 2009 | |
25 | Hungary | -6.43% | 2009 | |
26 | New Zealand | -8.093% | 2009 | |
27 | Portugal | -9.512% | 2009 | |
28 | Spain | -10.081% | 2009 | |
29 | Greece | -14.295% | 2009 | |
30 | Iceland | -15.618% | 2009 |