Libya: Gross national expenditure (% of GDP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Libya's gross national expenditure (% of GDP) fell 2.46 percentage points on 2024 (from 79.94% to 77.48%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.64 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 14.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below 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 26.14 percentage points in 2009 and the biggest yearly fall was 30.14 percentage points in 2021. 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 3.04 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 46% 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, Libya had the 125th 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.

Closest to Libya in the 2025 ranking

• Equatorial Guinea — 122nd of 130: 81.89%
• Malta — 123rd of 130: 80.8%
• Brunei Darussalam — 124th of 130: 80.25%
• Gabon — 126th of 130: 73.91%
• Luxembourg — 127th of 130: 68.84%
• Singapore — 128th of 130: 63.83%

What this measures

Gross national expenditure is the sum of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, and gross capital formation. 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.

All 36 values

Gross national expenditure (% of GDP) in nearby economies

• Algeria — 105.31% (2025)
• Bahrain — 82.29% (2024)
• Djibouti — 85.31% (2025)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 111.69% (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 108.73% (2025)
• Iraq — 87.73% (2024)
• Israel — 97.87% (2025)
• Kuwait — 82.48% (2024)
• Lebanon — 135.6% (2024)
• Malta — 80.8% (2025)
• Morocco

More economic policy & debt data for Libya

• Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$104.66 billion (2025)
• Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$84.06 billion (2025)
• GDP (current US$) — US$48.1 billion (2025)
• GDP (current LCU) — 255.17 billion (2025)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$64.4 billion (2025)
• GDP (constant LCU) — 96.66 billion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$6,449 (2025)
• GDP per capita (current LCU) — 34,212 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$8,634 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 12,960 (2025)
• GNI (current US$) — US$49.92 billion (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Libya's gross national expenditure (% of GDP)?

77.48% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1990?

It is down 13.96 percentage points from 91.44% in 1990. The highest value was 112.45% in 2015 and the lowest 45.28% in 2005.

How does Libya rank?

125th highest of 130 economies with data for 2025.

Is the latest change in gross national expenditure (% of GDP) unusual for Libya?

In 2025, Libya's gross national expenditure (% of GDP) fell 2.46 percentage points on 2024 (from 79.94% to 77.48%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.64 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 14.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below 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.DAB.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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