El Salvador recorded a Current Account deficit of 3.50 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2025. Current Account to GDP in El Salvador averaged -3.39 percent of GDP from 1990 until 2025, 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 -4.00 percent of GDP by the end of 2026, 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 -3.60 percent of GDP in 2027 and -2.80 percent of GDP in 2028, according to our econometric models.