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Eswatini — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Eswatini, 1971–2025.
Latest value · 2025
4.19%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -69.5% since 1971
GDP growth for Eswatini was 4.19% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 55 years, from 1971 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 21.02% in 1990. The lowest was -2.95% in 2020 (about -1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -2.17% per year.
Eswatini ranks 76 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 36%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.61%, so Eswatini sits below it. It peaked in 1990 and has fallen 80% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 146%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
4.19%
First (1971)
13.74%
Change
-69.5%
Highest
21.02%
in 1990
Lowest
-2.95%
in 2020
Average
4.80%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-2.17%
Years of data
55
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.19% |
| 2024 | 3.03% |
| 2023 | 3.53% |
| 2022 | 0.39% |
| 2021 | 4.24% |
| 2020 | -2.95% |
| 2019 | 6.43% |
| 2018 | 0.07% |
| 2017 | 3.52% |
| 2016 | 2.95% |
| 2015 | 1.7% |
| 2014 | 2.06% |
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.