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Namibia — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Namibia, 1981–2025.
Latest value · 2025
1.73%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · +78.1% since 1981
GDP growth for Namibia was 1.73% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 45 years, from 1981 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 12.27% in 2004. The lowest was -8.10% in 2020 (about -4.7× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 1.32% per year.
Namibia ranks 157 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 74%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.61%, so Namibia sits below it. It peaked in 2004 and has fallen 86% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 59%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
1.73%
First (1981)
0.97%
Change
+78.1%
Highest
12.27%
in 2004
Lowest
-8.10%
in 2020
Average
2.92%
Annual growth (CAGR)
1.32%
Years of data
45
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.73% |
| 2024 | 3.78% |
| 2023 | 4.32% |
| 2022 | 5.4% |
| 2021 | 3.6% |
| 2020 | -8.1% |
| 2019 | -0.84% |
| 2018 | 1.06% |
| 2017 | -1.03% |
| 2016 | 0.03% |
| 2015 | 4.26% |
| 2014 | 6.09% |
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.