World Bank — Balance of Payments (BPM6 components)

World Bank GroupUpdated 8 September 2026vobservatory/2026-09-08
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
World Bank — Balance of Payments (BPM6 components) — Current account balance (current US$) — 6 countries, 2000 to 2025
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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

countryindicatorcomponentflowunitrecent values
BeninCurrent account balancecurrent_accountnetcurrent US$2021: -734659106.551428 2022: -991004622.505377 2023: -1608543370.68412
BeninExports of goods and servicesgoods_and_servicescreditcurrent US$2021: 4153691103.36695 2022: 4271214670.05185 2023: 4511250793.36477
BeninImports of goods and servicesgoods_and_servicesdebitcurrent US$2021: 4925419324.42074 2022: 5295687243.63989 2023: 6189368965.59928
BeninGoods exportsgoodscreditcurrent US$2021: 3642106898.13025 2022: 3719074098.4827 2023: 4050150170.80025
BeninGoods importsgoodsdebitcurrent US$2021: 3994489086.76922 2022: 4355758555.15541 2023: 4648937884.78106
BeninServices exportsservicescreditcurrent US$2021: 511584205.236703 2022: 552140571.569154 2023: 461100622.56452

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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)

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/node/165

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