Vanuatu
Vanuatu in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Vanuatu recorded GDP per capita: 4,039 (2025), ranking 150 of 212 worldwide; Population: 335,169 (2025), ranking 177 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 71.7 (2024), ranking 141 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 0.66% (2025), ranking 161 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+1035%) and Inflation the largest decrease (-89%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on most of them. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 4 of 19 comparable series are higher and 15 are lower.
Its population of 335,169 (2025) makes it one of the smallest populations in this dataset.
18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 1,353,658,840.64 | 2025 | +1035.1% |
| GDP per capita | 4,038.74 | 2025 | +282.8% |
| GDP growth | 3.05% | 2025 | +126.8% |
| Population | 335,169 | 2025 | +420.2% |
| Population growth | 2.23% | 2025 | -20.5% |
| Urban population | 22.32% | 2025 | +179.9% |
| Inflation | 0.66% | 2025 | -88.6% |
| Life expectancy | 71.65 | 2024 | +43.8% |
| Infant mortality | 14.4 | 2024 | -87.2% |
| CO2 per capita | 0.87 | 2024 | -0.1% |
| GDP (PPP) | 1,516,718,978.22 | 2025 | +438.9% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 4,525.24 | 2025 | +138.1% |
| Labor participation | 58.11% | 2025 | -24.5% |
| Unemployment | 5.07% | 2025 | -36.4% |
| Electricity access | 65.5% | 2024 | +263.9% |
| Education spending | 7.64% | 2024 | +85.5% |
| Forest area | 36.28% | 2023 | 0.0% |
| Health spending | 4.12% | 2023 | +24.6% |
| Internet users | 22.35% | 2015 | — |