Top 15 OECD Countries with Highest Current Account Surpluses in 2017

11. Ireland

% of GDP: 4.6
Trade surplus value: $13.86 billion

Next on our list is Ireland, a country with a trade surplus of $13.8 billion, and a current account surplus of 4.6% of the country’s GDP.

Ireland’s biggest export categories are pharmaceutical products, followed by organic chemicals, and optical, photographic, cinematographic, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus.

The country likes to import aircraft, spacecraft, and parts for them, machinery and mechanical appliances and pharmaceutical products.

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