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Real GDP growth in Africa

52 countries in Africa, 2025. Unit: % per year. World ranking →

First in the ranking

13.4 %

Libya

Median country

4.5 %

half above, half below

World

2.9 %

World Bank aggregate

Range

-5.8 to 13.4

Equatorial Guinea - Libya

How to read it

Across 52 countries in Africa, the highest value is in Libya (13.4 %) and the lowest in Equatorial Guinea (-5.8 %).

The median country is at 4.5 %: half are above, half below.

Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States…

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Source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and… · via World Bank WDI (NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG) · licence

GDP growth over time

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Ranking of countries

2025

In chart
Libya in chart	1	Libya	13.4
Ethiopia in chart	2	Ethiopia	9.8
Rwanda in chart	3	Rwanda	9.4
Zimbabwe in chart	4	Zimbabwe	8.1
Benin in chart	5	Benin	8.1
Guinea in chart	6	Guinea	7.4
Niger in chart	7	Niger	7.0
Senegal in chart	8	Senegal	6.7
Côte d'Ivoire in chart	9	Côte d'Ivoire	6.5
Djibouti in chart	10	Djibouti	6.5
Uganda in chart	11	Uganda	6.3
Togo in chart	12	Togo	6.3
Cabo Verde in chart	13	Cabo Verde	6.3
Ghana in chart	14	Ghana	6.0
The Gambia in chart	15	The Gambia	5.9
Tanzania in chart	16	Tanzania	5.9
Guinea-Bissau in chart	17	Guinea-Bissau	5.8
Seychelles in chart	18	Seychelles	5.8
Democratic Republic of the Congo in chart	19	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.8
Mali in chart	20	Mali	5.6
Chad in chart	21	Chad	5.6
Burkina Faso in chart	22	Burkina Faso	5.3
Liberia in chart	23	Liberia	5.0
Kenya in chart	24	Kenya	4.6
Sierra Leone in chart	25	Sierra Leone	4.6
Morocco in chart	26	Morocco	4.6
Central African Republic in chart	27	Central African Republic	4.5
Egypt in chart	28	Egypt	4.4
Burundi in chart	29	Burundi	4.2
Eswatini in chart	30	Eswatini	4.2
Mauritania in chart	31	Mauritania	4.0
Nigeria in chart	32	Nigeria	4.0
Algeria in chart	33	Algeria	3.8
Zambia in chart	34	Zambia	3.8
Comoros in chart	35	Comoros	3.8
Cameroon in chart	36	Cameroon	3.2
Mauritius in chart	37	Mauritius	3.2
Angola in chart	38	Angola	3.1
Republic of the Congo in chart	39	Republic of the Congo	3.1
Sudan in chart	40	Sudan	3.1
Madagascar in chart	41	Madagascar	3.0
Somalia in chart	42	Somalia	3.0
Tunisia in chart	43	Tunisia	2.5
Gabon in chart	44	Gabon	2.5
Lesotho in chart	45	Lesotho	2.0
Malawi in chart	46	Malawi	1.9
Namibia in chart	47	Namibia	1.7
South Africa in chart	48	South Africa	1.1
São Tomé and Principe in chart	49	São Tomé and Principe	1.0
Mozambique in chart	50	Mozambique	-0.5
Botswana in chart	51	Botswana	-0.7
Equatorial Guinea in chart	52	Equatorial Guinea	-5.8

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