Sao Tome and Principe — GDP
GDP (Nominal) for Sao Tome and Principe, 1970–2025.
Latest value · 2025
981.29 million
GDP (Nominal) · current US$ · +2537.0% since 1970
GDP for Sao Tome and Principe was 981.29 million in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 56 years, from 1970 to 2025. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 37.21 million in 1970 (about 26.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 6.13% per year.
Sao Tome and Principe ranks 203 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 96%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 19.93 billion, so Sao Tome and Principe sits below it. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 277%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
981.29 million
First (1970)
37.21 million
Change
+2537.0%
Highest
981.29 million
in 2025
Lowest
37.21 million
in 1970
Average
190.41 million
Annual growth (CAGR)
6.13%
Years of data
56
Recent years
| Year | current US$ |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 981,293,586.91 |
| 2024 | 824,992,558.05 |
| 2023 | 690,456,806.7 |
| 2022 | 540,809,499.19 |
| 2021 | 524,402,455.55 |
| 2020 | 471,229,484.61 |
| 2019 | 412,976,082.62 |
| 2018 | 383,717,327.83 |
| 2017 | 322,002,845.23 |
| 2016 | 292,267,272.2 |
| 2015 | 259,999,643.05 |
| 2014 | 293,119,143.25 |
Reading this correctly. Gross domestic product at current market prices, converted to US dollars at official exchange rates. This is the number usually meant by 'GDP'. Figures are in current US$. 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.CD — GDP (Nominal). 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.