Current account balance
Long-run series since 1950. US dollars million, annual.
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Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Special Statistical Appendix (20 Apr 2026)
Macro Lab · LK.EXT.LONG_RUN.BOP_CURRENT_ACCOUNT_BALANCE.A · CC BY 4.0
About this series
- Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit US dollars million
- Date range 1950 – 2025
- Last checked 20 Apr 2026
Checks: 3 recorded for this series, listed below.
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Details
- Name in the warehouse
- Current account balance
- Read from
- CBSL Annual Economic Review statistical appendix (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
- Source page
- https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/publications/economic-and-financial-reports/annual-economic-review
- Notes
- CBSL Annual Economic Review Special Statistical Appendix. A long annual splice CBSL itself compiles across every base-year rebasing since independence, specifically to give one continuous read where the ordinary statistical tables only hold the post-rebasing years. Table 4: Balance of Payments (pre-BPM6 presentation), 1950-2025. Overall Balance and Current Account Balance were both checked against held EXT.BOP.BOP_OVERALL_BALANCE.A / BOP_CURRENT_ACCOUNT_DEFICIT.A in supersede() - neither meets the >=99%-agreement bar over their full shared span (Overall Balance looked exact on 3 spot-checked years but is only 85% over the full span; Current Account differs outright, e.g. 2020) - so both held series stay canonical and every disagreeing year is logged rather than demoted. The other line items have no same-measure held annual twin (the held BPM6 series are a different, more granular breakdown from 2012 on) and load as new.
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Vintages
One vintage so far, published 20 Apr 2026. Revisions show here once a later release changes a value.
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Source discrepancies
What the warehouse found when it checked this series: the same figure from two agencies, splice overlaps, published rates against ones recalculated from the index, and outliers.
- Two vintages2001
This series reads −215.1; the same figure from the other source reads −243.2. Compared with
LK.EXT.BOP.BOP_CURRENT_ACCOUNT_DEFICIT.A.Two agencies: −243.2 and −215.1, difference −28.1.
AER Special Appendix Table 4 (frozen 1950-2025 splice) vs held live EXT.BOP current account balance: -215.1 vs -243.2. Both series are correctly kept canonical (OVERLAP RULE); logged as a vintage difference between the frozen splice and the current, periodically-revised live series.
- Two vintages2016
This series reads −1,742; the same figure from the other source reads −1,942. Compared with
LK.EXT.BOP.BOP_CURRENT_ACCOUNT_DEFICIT.A.Two agencies: −1,942.1 and −1,742.4, difference −199.7.
AER Special Appendix Table 4 vs held live EXT.BOP current account balance: -1742.4 vs -1942.1 - same vintage-difference shape as the 2001-01-01 entry.
- Two vintages2020
This series reads −1,187; the same figure from the other source reads −1,083. Compared with
LK.EXT.BOP.BOP_CURRENT_ACCOUNT_DEFICIT.A.Two agencies: −1,083 and −1,187.1, difference 104.1.
AER Special Appendix Table 4 vs held live EXT.BOP current account balance: -1187.1 vs -1083.0 - same vintage-difference shape as the 2001-01-01 entry (direction reversed here, consistent with genuine, independent revisions on each side rather than one single systematic offset).