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Switzerland Current Account Balance

Switzerland's current account balance measures the broadest measure of trade flows, including goods, services, primary income (investment returns), and secondary income (transfers). It is the most comprehensive external balance indicator.

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2010-03-31

Why Current Account Balance matters for CHF

A persistent current account deficit means Switzerland must attract foreign capital to fund the shortfall, making the chf vulnerable to shifts in investor appetite. Current account surpluses imply structural chf demand.

How to interpret this series

Improvement (less deficit, more surplus) is chf-positive as it implies reduced dependence on foreign capital. A sudden widening of a deficit, especially if driven by external factors, is a warning sign for chf stability.

What this data measures

The current account is the broadest measure of a country's external position — trade in goods and services, plus net primary income (interest, dividends, wages earned abroad), plus net secondary income (remittances, foreign aid). It is essentially a country's net saving versus the rest of the world.

How to read the release

Read as a share of GDP, not in nominal currency terms. A deficit above 4-5 percent of GDP is historically a warning sign for emerging-market currencies. Cross-reference with trade_balance and net international investment position data.

Historical Current Account Balance

Source: FSO. Cadence: Quarterly. Unit: CHF mn. History from 2010-03-31 (16.3 years).

Historical chart data is temporarily unavailable.

Recent announcements

Latest release rows with direct links to the announcement detail pages.

No recent announcement rows are available for this page yet.

Switzerland Current Account Balance API docs

Developer reference, data provenance, response schema, and examples are kept on this same country indicator page so the public research page and API documentation do not compete with each other.

Endpoint coverage and contract

This page documents the exact request inputs, response fields, access model, and currently published history window for /api/v1/announcements/chf/current_account_balance.

Currently documented history begins on 2010-03-31 for this endpoint.

Production OpenAPI schema: https://fxmacrodata.com/api/openapi.json

Data source
FSO
Access and authentication

USD is free without a key. All other currencies require a Professional API key.

Public USD endpoint — anonymous callers receive the most recent 365 days. Add `?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY` to page through full stored USD history or to access any other currency. Date filters are applied before pagination. The default page size is 20 rows and the maximum is 100. Use either `page` or `offset`; when both are provided, `page` takes precedence. Broad windows should be traversed with `pagination.next_offset`, not split into custom shorter-window retries. If the selected series exists but a requested date window has no observations, the API returns a structured `NO_DATA_IN_REQUESTED_WINDOW` 404 with coverage dates, `recommended_start_date`, and `available_observation_count`. Forecasts are served separately by /v1/predictions/chf; join via `announcement_id`.

Data source and provenance

Macroeconomic announcement and catalogue rows are normalized from official central-bank, national statistics, treasury, or government publisher releases. Responses expose publisher metadata via source, source_url, and provenance fields where available.

Responses expose source, source_url, provenance, and data_quality fields for source citation, timestamp completeness, stale-data flags, and point-in-time safety checks.

Optional Indicator Availability (CHF)

Optional indicators use per-currency fetcher capability checks and may be temporarily hidden while source coverage is being remediated.

foreign_reserves
Available
cb_assets
Available
inflation_mom
Unavailable · Not implemented on this currency fetcher yet.

Path parameters

Switzerland Current Account Balance API path parameters
Parameter Required Type Description
currency YES string 3-letter currency code.
indicator YES string Indicator slug. Use /v1/data_catalogue/{currency} to list available slugs per currency.

Query parameters

Switzerland Current Account Balance API query parameters
Parameter Required Format Description
start_date NO string (YYYY-MM-DD) Earliest observation date to include. Date filters are applied before pagination. Authenticated requests page through full stored history when omitted; anonymous USD requests are limited to the most recent 365 days and 100 no-key requests/day.
end_date NO string (YYYY-MM-DD) Latest observation date to include. Defaults to today.
limit NO integer Maximum number of most-recent-first rows to return per page. Defaults to 20; maximum 100.
page NO integer One-based page number. When supplied, page takes precedence over offset; page=2 with limit=20 is equivalent to offset=20.
offset NO integer Zero-based row offset after date filtering. Use with pagination.next_offset to request the next page.
api_key Pro (USD: no-key 100/day) string Professional API key. Required for non-USD currencies and for USD requests that need history older than 365 days.
Pagination behavior

Use start_date and end_date to narrow the series first, then page through the filtered result with limit plus either page or offset. The default page size is 20 rows and the maximum is 100. The response includes earliest_available_date, latest_available_date, and a pagination object with returned_count, total_count, has_more, next_offset, and page_includes_latest_available. If the selected series exists but the requested date window has no rows, the endpoint returns 404 with error_code=NO_DATA_IN_REQUESTED_WINDOW.

Response fields
Switzerland Current Account Balance API response fields
Field Type Description
currency string 3-letter currency code.
indicator string Indicator slug as requested.
has_official_forecast boolean True if the central bank publishes an official forecast for this indicator.
start_date string Earliest date in the filtered result set (YYYY-MM-DD).
end_date string Latest date in the filtered result set (YYYY-MM-DD).
earliest_available_date string | null Earliest date available for this series before any date filter or pagination is applied.
latest_available_date string | null Latest date available for this series before pagination is applied.
requested_start_date string Start date applied to the request after endpoint defaults are resolved.
requested_end_date string End date applied to the request after endpoint defaults are resolved.
requested_window_has_data boolean False when the endpoint returned the latest eligible observation before the requested window instead of an observation inside the requested date range.
page_includes_latest_available boolean True when the current page includes latest_available_date. False usually means the latest row is on a different page or the response is a historical page.
pagination.limit integer Page size used for this response.
pagination.offset integer Zero-based offset used for this response.
pagination.returned_count integer Number of rows included in data[].
pagination.total_count integer Total number of rows matching the path and date filters before pagination.
pagination.has_more boolean True when another page is available.
pagination.next_offset integer | null Offset to use for the next page, or null when there are no more rows.
pagination.page_includes_latest_available boolean Mirrors page_includes_latest_available inside the pagination envelope for clients that keep pagination state together.
cb_target object | null Central bank target metadata (e.g. inflation target range), if applicable.
data[].date string Observation date (YYYY-MM-DD).
data[].announcement_id string Stable announcement identifier in the form `{currency}_{indicator}_{date}` — use it to join predictions from /v1/predictions/{currency} and revision history.
data[].val number | null Observed value in the indicator's native unit.
data[].announcement_datetime integer | null Unix timestamp (UTC) of the official data release.
data[].pct_change number | null Period-over-period percentage change.
data[].pct_change_12m number | null 12-month rolling percentage change.
data_quality object Standardized endpoint-level quality, source, freshness, and point-in-time safety metadata for the returned payload.
data_quality.is_official boolean True when the response is backed by an official source and is not proxy, fallback, derived, or prohibited-source data.
data_quality.is_proxy boolean True when the response is an explicit proxy for the requested concept rather than the primary official series.
data_quality.is_fallback boolean True when one or more returned rows are marked as fallback data.
data_quality.is_stale boolean True when the newest available observation is older than the endpoint's frequency-aware stale_after_days threshold.
data_quality.has_announcement_datetime boolean True when all rows in the quality scope carry the required announcement timestamp field or fields.
data_quality.point_in_time_safe boolean True when the result is not fallback/prohibited data and has complete release timestamps for point-in-time workflows.
data_quality.latest_available_date string | null Freshest observation date available for the quality scope before pagination-specific caveats.
data_quality.last_updated string | null Server-side refresh or update timestamp when the endpoint has one available.
data_quality.data_lag_days integer | null Calendar-day lag between today and latest_available_date; null when the latest date is missing, invalid, or future-dated.
data_quality.source_name string | null Human-readable source or publisher label used for the response.
data_quality.source_type official | public | fallback | derived Normalized source classification shared across source-backed REST and MCP responses.
data_quality.is_derived boolean True when the endpoint output is calculated from underlying source rows, such as spreads, slopes, forward curves, forecasts, or sentiment composites.
data_quality.row_count integer Number of rows considered in the data-quality scope.
data_quality.announcement_datetime_count integer Number of rows in scope with complete required announcement timestamp fields.
data_quality.missing_announcement_datetime_count integer Number of rows in scope missing at least one required announcement timestamp field.
data_quality.quality_scope string Scope used to compute the quality object, such as full_result, latest, recent, or scheduled_releases.
data_quality.stale_after_days integer | null Frequency-aware threshold used for is_stale; daily=7, weekly=21, monthly=62, quarterly=125, annual=550 by default.
source string Human-readable upstream publisher or source family for this response.
source_url string | null Official publisher URL or source landing page when available.
provenance object Structured provenance metadata including publisher, storage layer, served_by, timestamp field, and value field.
source_series_name string | null Publisher's source-series label when FXMacroData stores one.
source_local_name string | null Local-language or publisher-native series name when available.
provenance.publisher string Official upstream publisher for the requested currency/indicator series.
provenance.storage string FXMacroData serving storage layer for the returned payload.
Example request and response

Example usage

To retrieve the first page of Switzerland Current Account Balance data from 2023:

GET https://fxmacrodata.com/api/v1/announcements/chf/current_account_balance?start_date=2023-01-01&end_date=2023-12-31&limit=20&page=1&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY
Python requests
import requests

url = "https://fxmacrodata.com/api/v1/announcements/chf/current_account_balance"
params = {
    "start_date": "2023-01-01",
    "end_date": "2023-12-31",
    "limit": "20",
    "page": "1",
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
}
response = requests.get(url, params=params, timeout=20)
response.raise_for_status()
payload = response.json()

print(payload.get("data", payload))

Common questions

Editorial context for readers and AI agents using this page as a cited country indicator source.

How often is Switzerland Current Account Balance updated?

Current Account Balance for Switzerland is released on a quarterly schedule by Swiss National Bank (or the relevant national statistics agency). FXMacroData ingests each new value within seconds of the official publication and exposes the exact announcement timestamp on every record.

What unit is Current Account Balance reported in?

The series is published in CHF mn. The exact unit is also returned on every API response under the indicator metadata.

Where does FXMacroData source Switzerland Current Account Balance data?

Data is fetched directly from Swiss National Bank or the official national statistics publication for Switzerland. The source URL is preserved on every announcement record so downstream consumers can trace the value back to its primary release.

How do I query Current Account Balance for Switzerland via the API?

Issue a GET request to /api/v1/announcements/chf/current_account_balance?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY. The response contains a chronological list of observations with values, release dates, and announcement timestamps. USD announcement data is public; other currencies require a Professional API key.