BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 15. Azerbaijan's balance of payments current account surplus amounted to $6.7 billion from January through September 2023, Director of Azerbaijan's Central Bank Statistics Department Samir Nasirov said at a media briefing, Trend reports.
"According to the first nine months of this year's data, the current account surplus was $6.7 billion, or 12.5 percent of GDP," he said.
According to him, the surplus fell by 62.3 percent year on year, owing to a drop in international oil and gas prices.
"If Azerbaijan's realized oil price was $107 a barrel last year, it was $83 in the first nine months of this year," Nasirov added.
Simultaneously, he underlined that fluctuations in oil and gas prices have impacted all countries.
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