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Countries with the highest negative current account balance per GDP                              
Current account balance
List of countries by in billions of U.S. dollars based on The World Factbook.  Most data are 2007 estimates.
The sum of all current account does not balance at zero, which could be caused by some of the included figures being incorrect and the omission of some of countries' data.
Gross external debt
Is defined as the tota l public and private debt owed to non-residents repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services.
(Note: The list below does not include all the countries in the sources used).
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COUNTRY Popularion
(millions) 		GDP ($ billions)
CURRENT ACCOUNT
balance  ($ billions)
EXTERNAL DEBT
($ billions)
CURRENT ACCOUNT
balance  (% of GDP)
EXTERNAL DEBT
(% of GDP)
Romania 22.2 188 -21 85 -11.1% 45.2%
Greece 11.2 362 -36 372 -10.1% 102.8%
Spain 45.2 1,439 -126 2,047 -8.8% 142.3%
Portugal 10.8 223 -19 416 -8.3% 186.5%
New Zealand 4.3 128 -10 50 -7.8% 39.1%
Ireland 4.3 202 -13 1,841 -6.2% 911.4%
South Africa 48.0 282 -16 65 -5.8% 23.0%
Turkey 71.0 663 -36 226 -5.5% 34.1%
USA 304.0 13,794 -747 13,773 -5.4% 99.8%
Australia 21.3 1,046 -51 758 -4.9% 72.5%
Poland 38.0 420 -18 188 -4.3% 44.8%
Un. Kingdom 60.6 2,772 -111 11,503 -4.0% 415.0%
Italy 59.4 2,067 -58 2,345 -2.8% 113.4%
India 1132.0 1,089 -19 165 -1.7% 15.2%
France 64.5 2,232 -36 4,396 -1.6% 197.0%
Ecuador 14.0 99 -1 18 -0.6% 18.2%
Uruguay 4.0 23 0 12 -0.4% 52.2%
Paraguay 6.0 27 0 4 0.3% 14.8%
S.Korea 49.0 982 4 343 0.4% 34.9%
Brazil 184.0 1,313 10 230 0.8% 17.5%
Denmark 5.5 311 5 493 1.5% 158.5%
Canada 33.0 1,432 28 791 2.0% 55.2%
Peru 28.2 102 2 28 2.0% 27.5%
Indonesia 235.0 433 10 137 2.4% 31.6%
Austria 8.3 373 13 753 3.4% 201.9%
Belgium 10.6 316 11 1313 3.5% 415.5%
Thailand 63.0 245 9 59 3.5% 24.1%
Israel 7.3 154 6 87 3.9% 56.5%
Argentina 40.7 261 11 118 4.3% 45.2%
Japan 127.0 4,346 201 1,492 4.6% 34.3%
Chile 16.6 164 8 49 5.0% 29.9%
Venezuela 28.0 335 17 45 5.1% 13.4%
Russia 142.0 1,290 69 385 5.3% 29.8%
Germany 82.0 3,320 185 4,489 5.6% 135.2%
RoC(Taiwan) 23.0 383 24 86 6.2% 22.5%
Iran 71.0 294 19 14 6.5% 4.8%
Sweden 9.2 455 30 595 6.6% 130.8%
Finland 5.3 245 17 271 7.0% 110.6%
Iraq 29.0 102 8 56 7.6% 54.9%
Nigeria 148.0 191 15 6 7.6% 3.1%
Netherlands 16.4 625 59 2,280 9.5% 364.8%
Hong Kong 7.0 206 20 588 9.6% 285.4%
Bahrain 1.5 20 2 8 10.1% 40.0%
Bolivia 9.1 13 1 4 10.2% 30.8%
P. R. of China 1320.0 3,250 372 363 11.4% 11.2%
Qatar 1.5 68 8 31 11.4% 45.6%
Libya 6.0 75 12 5 15.6% 6.7%
Malaysia 27.0 165 26 58 15.7% 35.2%
Swittzerland 7.7 423 68 1,340 16.1% 316.8%
Singapore 4.7 228 41 26 18.2% 11.4%
U.A.Emirates 4.5 192 36 42 18.8% 21.9%
Saudi Arabia 27.0 446 89 53 20.0% 11.9%
Luxembourg 0.5 50 11 0
 22.6% 0.0%
Algeria 33.3 131 32 1 24.0% 0.8%
Norway 4.8 212 56 469 26.3% 221.2%
Kuwait 3.4 130 51 34


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