Equatorial Guinea's gross capital formation (annual % growth) was -17.48% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 21.6 percentage points from -39.08% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | -17.48% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -38.2% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | -39.08% | 2015 |
| Highest | 52.64% | 2024 |
| Lowest | -62.54% | 2023 |
| Average since 2016 | -12.96% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 29.72% | 2006 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Equatorial Guinea's gross capital formation (annual % growth) fell 70.12 percentage points on 2024 (from 52.64% to -17.48%).
Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2007 to 2024), the average change was +1.27 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 42.47 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 115.18 percentage points in 2024 and the biggest yearly fall was 70.12 percentage points in 2025. 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 10% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Equatorial Guinea had the 122nd highest value of the 123 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Equatorial Guinea | -17.48% | 2025 |
| World | 2.87% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 5.43% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 2.14% | 2025 |
Closest to Equatorial Guinea in the 2025 ranking
- Central African Republic — 118th of 123: -8.65%
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 119th of 123: -10.46%
- Haiti — 120th of 123: -15.27%
- Namibia — 122nd of 123: -25.63%
- Djibouti — 123rd of 123: -41.22%
What this measures
Gross capital formation includes acquisitions less disposals of produced assets for purposes of fixed capital formation, inventories or valuables. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 20 values
| Year | Gross capital formation (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -17.48 |
| 2024 | 52.64 |
| 2023 | -62.54 |
| 2022 | 2.19 |
| 2021 | 20.39 |
| 2020 | -38.2 |
| 2019 | -20.04 |
| 2018 | -11.44 |
| 2017 | -11.66 |
| 2016 | -43.48 |
| 2015 |
Gross capital formation (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 2.65% (2024)
- Benin — 10.7% (2025)
- Botswana — 14.01% (2024)
- Burkina Faso — 14.81% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 13.08% (2025)
- Cameroon — 10.09% (2025)
- Central African Republic — -8.65% (2025)
- Chad — 9.33% (2025)
- Comoros — 3.79% (2025)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 2.45% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Equatorial Guinea
- GDP (current US$) — US$12.82 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 7.46 trillion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$6,615 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 3.85 million (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$11.61 billion (2025)
- GNI (current LCU) — 6.76 trillion (2025)
- GNI per capita (current LCU) — 3.49 million (2025)
- Net primary income (net income from abroad) (current US$) — −US$1.21 billion (2025)
- Net primary income (net income from abroad) (current LCU) — -705.58 billion (2025)
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Equatorial Guinea's gross capital formation (annual % growth)?
- -17.48% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2006?
- It is down 47.19 percentage points from 29.72% in 2006. The highest value was 52.64% in 2024 and the lowest -62.54% in 2023.
- How does Equatorial Guinea rank?
- 122nd highest of 123 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in gross capital formation (annual % growth) unusual for Equatorial Guinea?
- In 2025, Equatorial Guinea's gross capital formation (annual % growth) fell 70.12 percentage points on 2024 (from 52.64% to -17.48%). Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2007 to 2024), the average change was +1.27 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 42.47 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.GDI.TOTL.KD.ZG, 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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