Haiti's gross capital formation (annual % growth) was -15.27% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 4.07 percentage points from -11.2% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | -15.27% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -30.09% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | -11.2% | 2015 |
| Highest | 123.5% | 1995 |
| Lowest | -36.78% | 2024 |
| Average since 2016 | -10.91% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | -7.6% | 1989 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Haiti's gross capital formation (annual % growth) rose 21.51 percentage points on 2024 (from -36.78% to -15.27%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.06 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 44.89 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 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 158.37 percentage points in 1995 and the biggest yearly fall was 111.77 percentage points in 1996. 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 downward, about 3.64 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 45% 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, Haiti had the 121st 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Haiti | -15.27% | 2025 |
| World | 2.87% | 2025 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 3.12% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 6.24% | 2025 |
Closest to Haiti in the 2025 ranking
- Macao SAR, China — 117th of 123: -7.76%
- Central African Republic — 118th of 123: -8.65%
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 119th of 123: -10.46%
- Equatorial Guinea — 121st of 123: -17.48%
- 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 37 values
| Year | Gross capital formation (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -15.27 |
| 2024 | -36.78 |
| 2023 | -17.63 |
| 2022 | -9.88 |
| 2021 | -21.75 |
| 2020 | -30.09 |
| 2019 | 13.38 |
| 2018 | 2.25 |
| 2017 | 7.9 |
| 2016 | -1.19 |
| 2015 |
Gross capital formation (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Argentina — 17.73% (2025)
- Bahamas, The — 19.77% (2024)
- Belize — 4.52% (2024)
- Bolivia — -10.48% (2024)
- Brazil — 4.43% (2025)
- Chile — 8.93% (2025)
- Colombia — 2.09% (2025)
- Costa Rica — 3.31% (2025)
- Cuba — 3.31% (2024)
- Dominican Republic — -4.36% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Haiti
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$3.39 billion (2025)
- Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$3.14 billion (2025)
- GDP (current US$) — US$32.08 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 4.19 trillion (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$13.22 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU) — 552.51 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$2,694 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 352,104 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$1,111 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 46,405 (2025)
- GDP (annual % growth)
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Questions people ask
- What is Haiti's gross capital formation (annual % growth)?
- -15.27% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1989?
- It is down 7.67 percentage points from -7.6% in 1989. The highest value was 123.5% in 1995 and the lowest -36.78% in 2024.
- How does Haiti rank?
- 121st highest of 123 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in gross capital formation (annual % growth) unusual for Haiti?
- In 2025, Haiti's gross capital formation (annual % growth) rose 21.51 percentage points on 2024 (from -36.78% to -15.27%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.06 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 44.89 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
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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