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Bhutan — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Bhutan, 1971–2025.
Latest value · 2025
8.01%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · +199.0% since 1971
GDP growth for Bhutan was 8.01% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 55 years, from 1971 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 29.05% in 1987. The lowest was -10.22% in 2020 (about -1.3× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 2.05% per year.
Bhutan ranks 14 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 7%. The median for South Asia is 6.31%, so Bhutan sits above it. It peaked in 1987 and has fallen 72% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 20%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
8.01%
First (1971)
2.68%
Change
+199.0%
Highest
29.05%
in 1987
Lowest
-10.22%
in 2020
Average
6.16%
Annual growth (CAGR)
2.05%
Years of data
55
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8.01% |
| 2024 | 7.5% |
| 2023 | 4.63% |
| 2022 | 5.21% |
| 2021 | 4.42% |
| 2020 | -10.22% |
| 2019 | 5.76% |
| 2018 | 3.5% |
| 2017 | 2.09% |
| 2016 | 8.48% |
| 2015 | 6.66% |
| 2014 | 5.88% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.