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Dataset
World Bank — Balance of Payments (BPM6 components)
Public ID
ADG-DAT-2026-012
Version
observatory/2026-09-08
Licence
CC-BY-4.0
2015-12-31 — 2025-12-31Period
Regional — West AfricaCoverage
QuantitativeCategory
OpenAccess
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World Bank — Balance of Payments (BPM6 components). Collected from World Bank Group (igo) on a quarterly cadence. 253 records spanning 2015-12-31 to 2025-12-31, covering GHA, SLE, MLI, NGA, SEN, BFA, TGO, LBR, BEN, GNB, NER, CIV, GIN, CPV, MRT, GMB. Evidence is content-addressed: every record carries a SHA-256 hash of the exact bytes retrieved, the source URL, the date the source published it and the date it was fetched.
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Balance of payments components
| country | indicator | component | flow | unit | recent values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | Current account balance | current_account | net | current US$ | 2021: -734659106.551428 2022: -991004622.505377 2023: -1608543370.68412 |
| Benin | Exports of goods and services | goods_and_services | credit | current US$ | 2021: 4153691103.36695 2022: 4271214670.05185 2023: 4511250793.36477 |
| Benin | Imports of goods and services | goods_and_services | debit | current US$ | 2021: 4925419324.42074 2022: 5295687243.63989 2023: 6189368965.59928 |
| Benin | Goods exports | goods | credit | current US$ | 2021: 3642106898.13025 2022: 3719074098.4827 2023: 4050150170.80025 |
| Benin | Goods imports | goods | debit | current US$ | 2021: 3994489086.76922 2022: 4355758555.15541 2023: 4648937884.78106 |
| Benin | Services exports | services | credit | current US$ | 2021: 511584205.236703 2022: 552140571.569154 2023: 461100622.56452 |
Showing 6 of 253 records.
Variables and indicators
records: 253
temporal span: 2015-12-31 to 2025-12-31
countries covered: 16
data kind: quantitative
evidence class: primary
licence: CC-BY-4.0
republishable: yes
top countries: GHA (16), SLE (16), MLI (16), NGA (16), SEN (16)
record types: bop_series (253)
temporal span: 2015-12-31 to 2025-12-31
countries covered: 16
data kind: quantitative
evidence class: primary
licence: CC-BY-4.0
republishable: yes
top countries: GHA (16), SLE (16), MLI (16), NGA (16), SEN (16)
record types: bop_series (253)
Method
Content-addressed collection (SHA-256). Evidence class: primary source. Cadence: quarterly.
How to cite
ADG Library Editorial (31 December 2025). World Bank — Balance of Payments (BPM6 components). Axel Dev Group — ADG Library, Dataset ADG-DAT-2026-012. https://library.axeldevlab.com/index.php/node/165
@techreport{ADG-DAT-2026-012,
title = {{World Bank — Balance of Payments (BPM6 components)}},
author = {ADG Library Editorial},
institution = {Axel Dev Group --- ADG Library},
type = {Dataset},
number = {ADG-DAT-2026-012},
year = {2025},
url = {https://library.axeldevlab.com/index.php/node/165}
}
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