Current account deficit in 2015 to fall to 1% of GDP, 1% in 2016 - NBU

17:36, 25.11.2015 1 min read

The deficit of the current account of Ukraine's balance of payment in 2015 will fall to around 1% of GDP, despite the expected increase in energy imports in the fourth quarter of 2015, director of the monetary policy and economic analysis department at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Serhiy Mykolaichuk has said.

The NBU wrote on its Facebook page that Mykolaichuk gave this information at the Ukrainian pharmaceutical forum on Tuesday.

"The current account of the balance of payment is rather balanced, and we do not expect misbalancing," he said.

Mykolaichuk said that the similar indicator will be seen in 2016, while in 2013 it reached 9% of GDP.

As reported, in January-September 2015 the deficit of Ukraine's balance of payment fell to $1 million, while in January-September 2015 it was $4.947 billion.