Guyana: GDP (annual % growth)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Guyana's GDP (annual % growth) fell 24.48 percentage points on 2024 (from 43.82% to 19.34%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +1.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 13.23 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.9 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 43.27 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 29.54 percentage points in 2023. 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 4.35 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 39% 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.

How it compares

In 2025, Guyana had the 1st highest value of the 186 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.

Closest to Guyana in the 2025 ranking

• Libya — 2nd of 186: 13.37%
• Ireland — 3rd of 186: 12.34%
• Kyrgyz Republic — 4th of 186: 11.1%

What this measures

Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.

Limitations: Each industry's contribution to growth in the economy's output is measured by growth in the industry's value added. In principle, value added in constant prices can be estimated by measuring the quantity of goods and services produced in a period, valuing them at an agreed set of base year prices, and subtracting the cost of intermediate inputs, also in constant prices. This double-deflation method requires detailed information on the structure of prices of inputs and outputs. In many industries, however, value added is extrapolated from the base year using single volume indexes of outputs or, less commonly, inputs.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 65 values

GDP (annual % growth) in nearby economies

• Antigua and Barbuda — 5% (2025)
• Argentina — 4.37% (2025)
• Aruba — 6.81% (2024)
• Bahamas, The — 3.38% (2024)
• Barbados — 2.7% (2025)
• Belize — 2.75% (2025)
• Bolivia — -1.58% (2025)
• Brazil — 2.29% (2025)
• Cayman Islands — 3.76% (2024)
• Chile — 2.46% (2025)
• Colombia — 2.64% (2025)
• Costa Rica — 4.56% (2025)

More economic policy & debt data for Guyana

• Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$1.36 billion (2025)
• Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$1.36 billion (2025)
• Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$) — US$2.1 billion (2025)
• Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU) — 436.98 billion (2025)
• Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (constant 2015 US$) — US$1.62 billion (2025)
• Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (constant LCU) — 363.35 billion (2025)
• Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) — 7.73% (2025)
• Manufacturing, value added (current US$) — US$514.49 million (2025)
• Manufacturing, value added (current LCU)

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Questions people ask

What is Guyana's GDP (annual % growth)?

19.34% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1961?

It is up 14.65 percentage points from 4.69% in 1961. The highest value was 63.33% in 2022 and the lowest -13.19% in 1982.

How does Guyana rank?

1st highest of 186 economies with data for 2025.

Is the latest change in GDP (annual % growth) unusual for Guyana?

In 2025, Guyana's GDP (annual % growth) fell 24.48 percentage points on 2024 (from 43.82% to 19.34%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +1.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 13.23 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.9 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 NY.GDP.MKTP.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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