The present disclosure discloses a backlight apparatus for a display and a current control integrated circuit thereof. The backlight apparatus includes a backlight panel including light-emitting diode (LED) channels having a matrix structure and divided into a plurality of control units, a column driver configured to provide, in a horizontal period unit, column signals corresponding to columns of the LED channels, a row driver configured to provide, in a frame unit, row signals corresponding to rows of the LED channels and to sequentially provide the row signals in the horizontal period included in the frame, and current control integrated circuits disposed in the backlight panel in a way to correspond to the control units, respectively, and each configured to receive the column signal and the row signals corresponding to LED channels of the control unit and to control emission of the LED channels of the control unit.