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Gabon — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Gabon, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.47%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -83.3% since 1961
GDP growth for Gabon was 2.47% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 39.49% in 1974. The lowest was -24.05% in 1978 (about -9.7× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -2.75% per year.
Gabon ranks 132 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 62%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.61%, so Gabon sits below it. It peaked in 1974 and has fallen 94% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 36%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.47%
First (1961)
14.77%
Change
-83.3%
Highest
39.49%
in 1974
Lowest
-24.05%
in 1978
Average
4.00%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-2.75%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.47% |
| 2024 | 3.39% |
| 2023 | 2.44% |
| 2022 | 3.04% |
| 2021 | 1.47% |
| 2020 | -1.84% |
| 2019 | 3.92% |
| 2018 | 0.84% |
| 2017 | 0.47% |
| 2016 | 2.09% |
| 2015 | 3.88% |
| 2014 | 4.31% |
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.