Low income's gross capital formation (current US$) was US$133.05 billion in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 45.2% from US$91.63 billion in 2015 (3.8% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | US$133.05 billion | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | US$96.72 billion | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | US$91.63 billion | 2015 |
| Highest | US$133.05 billion | 2025 |
| Lowest | US$61.55 billion | 2009 |
| Average since 2016 | US$110.12 billion | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | US$63.11 billion |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Low income's gross capital formation (current US$) rose 5.2% on 2024 (from US$126.5 billion to US$133.05 billion).
Across the 16 yearly changes before that (2009 to 2024), the average change was +4.8% and a typical year strayed about 8.3% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 15.7% in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 9.1% in 2020. 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 US$5.19 billion a year. A straight line explains 90% 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
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Low income | US$133.05 billion | 2025 |
| World | US$29.36 trillion | 2024 |
What this measures
Gross capital formation includes acquisitions less disposals of produced assets for purposes of fixed capital formation, inventories or valuables. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Limitations: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Data on capital formation may be estimated from direct surveys of enterprises and administrative records or based on the commodity flow method using data from production, trade, and construction activities.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a gap-filled total.
All 18 values
| Year | Gross capital formation (current US$) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 133,046,005,359 |
| 2024 | 126,499,146,922 |
| 2023 | 121,926,589,893 |
| 2022 | 127,047,165,656 |
| 2021 | 111,898,410,355 |
| 2020 | 96,723,013,388 |
| 2019 | 106,395,447,184 |
| 2018 | 100,599,150,213 |
| 2017 | 91,439,514,655 |
| 2016 | 85,592,116,542 |
Gross capital formation (current US$) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — US$3.04 billion (2024)
- Algeria — US$129.93 billion (2025)
- Bahrain — US$13.39 billion (2024)
- Djibouti — US$71.69 million (2025)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — US$47.08 billion (2025)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — US$151.5 billion (2025)
- Iraq — US$53.51 billion (2024)
- Israel — US$148.71 billion (2025)
- Kuwait — US$24.3 billion (2024)
- Lebanon — US$375.26 million (2024)
More economic policy & debt data for Low income
- GDP (current US$) — US$642.67 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$837.36 (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$627.91 billion (2025)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Austria (current US$) — US$57.58 million (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Belgium (current US$) — US$350.05 million (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Canada (current US$) — US$677.23 million (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, European Union institutions (current US$) — US$3.08 billion (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Switzerland (current US$) — US$483.76 million (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Germany (current US$)
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Questions people ask
- What is Low income's gross capital formation (current US$)?
- US$133.05 billion in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2008?
- It is up 110.8% from US$63.11 billion in 2008 (4.48% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$133.05 billion in 2025 and the lowest US$61.55 billion in 2009.
- Is the latest change in gross capital formation (current US$) unusual for Low income?
- In 2025, Low income's gross capital formation (current US$) rose 5.2% on 2024 (from US$126.5 billion to US$133.05 billion). Across the 16 yearly changes before that (2009 to 2024), the average change was +4.8% and a typical year strayed about 8.3% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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.CD, 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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