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Nepal — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Nepal, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
4.43%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · +132.2% since 1961
GDP growth for Nepal was 4.43% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 9.68% in 1984. The lowest was -2.98% in 1983 (about -1.5× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 1.32% per year.
Nepal ranks 65 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 31%. The median for South Asia is 6.31%, so Nepal sits below it. It peaked in 1984 and has fallen 54% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 11%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
4.43%
First (1961)
1.91%
Change
+132.2%
Highest
9.68%
in 1984
Lowest
-2.98%
in 1983
Average
3.80%
Annual growth (CAGR)
1.32%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.43% |
| 2024 | 3.68% |
| 2023 | 1.98% |
| 2022 | 5.63% |
| 2021 | 4.84% |
| 2020 | -2.37% |
| 2019 | 6.66% |
| 2018 | 7.62% |
| 2017 | 8.98% |
| 2016 | 0.43% |
| 2015 | 3.98% |
| 2014 | 6.01% |
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.