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Papua New Guinea — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Papua New Guinea, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
5.64%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -8.8% since 1961
GDP growth for Papua New Guinea was 5.64% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 18.20% in 1993. The lowest was -3.90% in 1997 (about -1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -0.14% per year.
Papua New Guinea ranks 41 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 19%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 3.62%, so Papua New Guinea sits above it. It peaked in 1993 and has fallen 69% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 14%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
5.64%
First (1961)
6.18%
Change
-8.8%
Highest
18.20%
in 1993
Lowest
-3.90%
in 1997
Average
3.85%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-0.14%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.64% |
| 2024 | 3.89% |
| 2023 | 3.81% |
| 2022 | 5.71% |
| 2021 | -0.51% |
| 2020 | -3.17% |
| 2019 | 4.48% |
| 2018 | -0.28% |
| 2017 | 3.53% |
| 2016 | 5.49% |
| 2015 | 6.58% |
| 2014 | 13.54% |
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.