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Ledger row

Current account balance

The name at the source «Current account balance - 3 year average»

What this number is

It is the difference between what Portugal received from the rest of the world and what it paid to it, in goods, services and income, averaged over the last three years and as a percentage of GDP, the value of everything the country produces in a year. Positive means the country received more than it paid.

0,4 % of GDP (three-year average)

identifier saldo-da-balanca-corrente-2024

Published by Eurostat (tipsbp10)

Series page

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tipsbp10/default/table?lang=en

Proof

Field returned

Current account balance - 3 year average — Percentage of GDP - three-year average — Portugal — 2024: 0.4

Excerpt composed from the source's response.

Request

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/tipsbp10?format=JSON&lang=EN&geo=PT&unit=PC_GDP_3Y&partner=WRL_REST

What was checked

Published by the source on
02.10.2026
Read at the source on
05.10.2026
Re-read on
05.10.2026, matches the source · weekly comparison with the source
Re-read on
05.10.2026, the re-read found: 0,4 · weekly comparison with the source See the update to this value

Corrections and updates to this row

05.10.2026update0,30,4

Eurostat revised Portugal's value on 02.10.2026 (the dataset stamp moved from 08.07.2026 to 02.10.2026); the weekly check of 05.10.2026 caught the revision.

05.10.2026provenance revisionreading date: 15.09.202605.10.2026

The new value was read on 05.10.2026, the day of the check that caught the revision; the earlier reading, of 15.09.2026, is that of the value 0,3.

05.10.2026provenance revisionsource excerpt: Current account balance - 3 year average — Percentage of GDP - three-year average — Portugal — 2024: 0.3Current account balance - 3 year average — Percentage of GDP - three-year average — Portugal — 2024: 0.4

The excerpt now transcribes the revised value the source prints for the same observation, read on 05.10.2026.

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