Last year the central bank had put the July-September 2017 figure at $1.64 billion CAIRO: Egypt’s current account deficit narrowed to $1.751 billion in the three months to end-September, the central bank said on Thursday, from an apparently revised $1.754 billion a year earlier. Last year the central bank had put the July-September 2017 figure at $1.64 billion. Remittances from workers abroad rose to $5.91 billion from $5.82 billion while the trade deficit increased to $9.90 billion from $8.91 billion.