Lise Alves – The Rio Times, 1/26/2015
Brazil’s current accounts in 2014 registered a record deficit of US$90.948 billion, according to data released by Brazil’s Central Bank (CB) on Friday, January 23rd. The result was well above 2013’s deficit of US$81.108 billion and the highest registered since the CB started the series in 1947.
Last year’s annual deficit is equivalent to 4.17 percent of the country’s GDP, the worst result since 2001.
The Central Bank released both December 2014 results as well as results for the entire year. For December, the country’s current account, which is measured by the sum of the balance of trade (goods and services exports less imports), net income from abroad and net current transfers, registered a deficit of US$10.317 billion.
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