Eli5: Why do we define current as the rate of flow of charges and not rate of flow of electron?

Question

Since current caused by the movement of electrons in the wire so shouldn’t current be define rate of flow of electron?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Because if you had a flow of electrons in one direction and a flow of protons in the other direction, the net flow would be neutral, but your system would measure a current flowing in the first direction.