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Sao Tome and Principe — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Sao Tome and Principe, 1971–2025.
Latest value · 2025
1.03%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -80.9% since 1971
GDP growth for Sao Tome and Principe was 1.03% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 55 years, from 1971 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 23.42% in 1977. The lowest was -10.31% in 1981 (about -10.0× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -3.02% per year.
Sao Tome and Principe ranks 173 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 82%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.61%, so Sao Tome and Principe sits below it. It peaked in 1977 and has fallen 96% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 33%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
1.03%
First (1971)
5.38%
Change
-80.9%
Highest
23.42%
in 1977
Lowest
-10.31%
in 1981
Average
2.79%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-3.02%
Years of data
55
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.03% |
| 2024 | 1.48% |
| 2023 | 0.37% |
| 2022 | 0.17% |
| 2021 | 1.9% |
| 2020 | 2.62% |
| 2019 | 2.01% |
| 2018 | 4.38% |
| 2017 | 4.11% |
| 2016 | 5.18% |
| 2015 | 1.54% |
| 2014 | 4.91% |
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.