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Current Account

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Nigeria balance of payments, current account, 2018-2022, ₦ million. Compiled by the Central Bank of Nigeria; published in the NBS Annual Abstract of Statistics 2023, Tables 373-376. **A positive value is a surplus (net inflow); a negative value is a deficit (net outflow).** The source prints deficits in parentheses — (4,193,430) is stored as −4,193,430. ⚠ This is the CURRENT ACCOUNT ONLY. The Annual Abstract 2023 does not publish Nigeria's capital account, financial account, net errors and omissions, or overall balance, so the full balance-of-payments identity cannot be checked against this publication. The footnote printed on these pages about accretion to reserves refers to a reserves line that does not appear in any of the four tables and must not be applied to this series. Both 2021 and 2022 carry revision_status = provisional. That is PRISM'S encoding, not the source's wording: the Abstract marks 2021 "provisional" and 2022 "revised" — chronologically backwards — and Table 376 marks neither year. "Revised" is not an established value in this corpus, and marking both provisional is the only reading that cannot overstate finality.

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Record details

Subject
Balance of Payments
Provider
National Bureau of Statistics
Licence
Nigeria Open Government Data License
Coverage
2018–2022
Observations
5
Series type
TS
Source record
Catalog 180
Cite this series
"Current Account", CBN via NBS, Annual Abstract of Statistics 2023, ref. NGA-NBS-ABSTRACT. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-bop-current-account-nga.

Source publications catalogued by Prism; 2022.