Bosnia and Herzegovina's gross capital formation (% of GDP) was 28.74% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 6.57 percentage points from 22.17% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 28.74% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 23.47% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 22.17% | 2015 |
| Highest | 42% | 1997 |
| Lowest | 19.98% | 1995 |
| Average since 2016 | 25.93% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 19.98% | 1995 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Bosnia and Herzegovina's gross capital formation (% of GDP) rose 1.37 percentage points on 2024 (from 27.37% to 28.74%).
Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2024), the average change was +0.25 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.05 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 21.23 percentage points in 1996 and the biggest yearly fall was 10 percentage points in 1999. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.52 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 74% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 29.88% for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.31%, against 0.74% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, Bosnia and Herzegovina had the 29th highest value of the 130 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 28.74% | 2025 |
| World | 26.29% | 2024 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 22.93% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 33.72% | 2024 |
Closest to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 2025 ranking
- Congo, Rep. — 26th of 130: 29.39%
- Botswana — 27th of 130: 29.16%
- Korea, Rep. — 28th of 130: 29.13%
- Bangladesh — 30th of 130: 28.54%
- Somalia, Fed. Rep. — 31st of 130: 28.11%
- Kyrgyz Republic — 32nd of 130: 27.97%
What this measures
Gross capital formation includes acquisitions less disposals of produced assets for purposes of fixed capital formation, inventories or valuables. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Limitations: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Data on capital formation may be estimated from direct surveys of enterprises and administrative records or based on the commodity flow method using data from production, trade, and construction activities.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 31 values
| Year | Gross capital formation (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 28.74 |
| 2024 | 27.37 |
| 2023 | 27.04 |
| 2022 | 27.9 |
| 2021 | 26.25 |
| 2020 | 23.47 |
| 2019 | 25.19 |
| 2018 | 24.81 |
| 2017 | 25.16 |
| 2016 | 23.33 |
| 2015 |
Gross capital formation (% of GDP) in nearby economies
More economic policy & debt data for Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$7.31 million (2021)
- GDP (current US$) — US$32.6 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 56.55 billion (2025)
- GDP, linked series (current LCU) — 56.55 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$21.8 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU) — 43.87 billion (2025)
- GDP, PPP (current international $) — 81.06 billion (2025)
- GDP, PPP (constant 2021 international $) — 66.5 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$10,382 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Bosnia and Herzegovina's gross capital formation (% of GDP)?
- 28.74% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1995?
- It is up 8.75 percentage points from 19.98% in 1995. The highest value was 42% in 1997 and the lowest 19.98% in 1995.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.GDI.TOTL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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