{
  "id": "trd-cab-043",
  "question": "Does India run a current account deficit?",
  "topic": "Trade & money",
  "unit": "% of GDP",
  "decimals": 1,
  "measures": "India's current account balance (trade in goods and services, primary income and transfers) as a share of GDP, by financial year, from the RBI's balance-of-payments data. A negative number is a deficit, a positive one a surplus. The latest year is preliminary.",
  "verified": true,
  "source": {
    "name": "RBI, Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy 2025-26, Table 241: Balance of Payments - Indicators; RBI press release of 8 June 2026 on BoP in Q4 2025-26",
    "url": "https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=62890",
    "table": "HBS 2025-26 Table 241, Current Account, CAD/GDP (col. 9)",
    "licence": "RBI website terms of use"
  },
  "released": "2026-06-08",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-18",
  "nextDueBy": "2027-06-30",
  "processing": "Copied as published.",
  "exam": {
    "publisher": "Reserve Bank of India",
    "survey": "Balance of Payments; Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy 2025-26, Table 241",
    "frequency": "Quarterly balance-of-payments releases; the full financial year with the January–March quarter",
    "measures": "Current account balance (goods, services, primary income and secondary income such as remittances) as a share of GDP, by financial year",
    "notes": [
      "A negative number is a deficit, a positive one a surplus.",
      "The current account plus the capital account and financial account (with errors and omissions) make up the balance of payments; the change in reserves balances it."
    ]
  },
  "targets": [],
  "values": [
    {
      "period": "2011-12",
      "start": "2011-04",
      "end": "2012-03",
      "value": -4.29
    },
    {
      "period": "2012-13",
      "start": "2012-04",
      "end": "2013-03",
      "value": -4.81
    },
    {
      "period": "2013-14",
      "start": "2013-04",
      "end": "2014-03",
      "value": -1.73
    },
    {
      "period": "2014-15",
      "start": "2014-04",
      "end": "2015-03",
      "value": -1.29
    },
    {
      "period": "2015-16",
      "start": "2015-04",
      "end": "2016-03",
      "value": -1.03
    },
    {
      "period": "2016-17",
      "start": "2016-04",
      "end": "2017-03",
      "value": -0.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2017-18",
      "start": "2017-04",
      "end": "2018-03",
      "value": -1.82
    },
    {
      "period": "2018-19",
      "start": "2018-04",
      "end": "2019-03",
      "value": -2.09
    },
    {
      "period": "2019-20",
      "start": "2019-04",
      "end": "2020-03",
      "value": -0.83
    },
    {
      "period": "2020-21",
      "start": "2020-04",
      "end": "2021-03",
      "value": 0.93
    },
    {
      "period": "2021-22",
      "start": "2021-04",
      "end": "2022-03",
      "value": -1.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-23",
      "start": "2022-04",
      "end": "2023-03",
      "value": -2.04
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-24",
      "start": "2023-04",
      "end": "2024-03",
      "value": -0.72
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-25",
      "start": "2024-04",
      "end": "2025-03",
      "value": -0.58
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-26",
      "start": "2025-04",
      "end": "2026-03",
      "value": -0.61
    }
  ],
  "page": "https://india.tf/c/trd-cab-043/",
  "csv": "https://india.tf/c/trd-cab-043/data.csv",
  "versions": "https://india.tf/c/trd-cab-043/versions.csv"
}