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Liberia — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Liberia, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
5.02%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · +105.6% since 1961
GDP growth for Liberia was 5.02% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 106.28% in 1997. The lowest was -51.03% in 1990 (about -10.2× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 1.13% per year.
Liberia ranks 52 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 25%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.61%, so Liberia sits above it. It peaked in 1997 and has fallen 95% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 27122%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
5.02%
First (1961)
2.44%
Change
+105.6%
Highest
106.28%
in 1997
Lowest
-51.03%
in 1990
Average
2.05%
Annual growth (CAGR)
1.13%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.02% |
| 2024 | 4.02% |
| 2023 | 4.68% |
| 2022 | 4.81% |
| 2021 | 4.99% |
| 2020 | -2.98% |
| 2019 | -2.47% |
| 2018 | 1.16% |
| 2017 | 2.46% |
| 2016 | -1.55% |
| 2015 | -0.02% |
| 2014 | 0.7% |
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.