Namibia's GDP per capita (annual % growth) was -0.33% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 1.87 percentage points from 1.53% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | -0.33% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -10.74% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 1.53% | 2015 |
| Highest | 10.85% | 2004 |
| Lowest | -10.74% | 2020 |
| Average since 2016 | -1.64% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | -0.15% | 1981 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Namibia's GDP per capita (annual % growth) fell 1.81 percentage points on 2024 (from 1.48% to -0.33%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.1 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.01 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 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 11.33 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 9.59 percentage points in 2005. 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 24% 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, Namibia had the 170th 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Namibia | -0.33% | 2025 |
| World | 1.99% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 1.64% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 4.6% | 2025 |
Closest to Namibia in the 2025 ranking
- Iceland — 166th of 186: -0.24%
- Mexico — 167th of 186: -0.27%
- Finland — 168th of 186: -0.3%
- Somalia, Fed. Rep. — 170th of 186: -0.39%
- Malawi — 171st of 186: -0.69%
- Trinidad and Tobago — 172nd of 186: -0.75%
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. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.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 45 values
| Year | GDP per capita (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -0.3317 |
| 2024 | 1.48 |
| 2023 | 1.74 |
| 2022 | 2.51 |
| 2021 | 0.589 |
| 2020 | -10.74 |
| 2019 | -3.58 |
| 2018 | -1.7 |
| 2017 | -3.7 |
| 2016 | -2.63 |
| 2015 |
GDP per capita (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 0.08% (2025)
- Benin — 5.51% (2025)
- Botswana — -2.32% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 2.99% (2025)
- Burundi — 1.76% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 5.8% (2025)
- Cameroon — 0.59% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 1.04% (2025)
- Chad — 2.05% (2025)
- Comoros — 1.85% (2025)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 2.43% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Namibia
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 8.92% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, net forest depletion (current US$) — US$106.2 million (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$262.77 million (2021)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$3.36 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 60.11 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$) — US$3.51 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant LCU) — 45.2 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 22.28% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Namibia's GDP per capita (annual % growth)?
- -0.33% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1981?
- It is down 0.18 percentage points from -0.15% in 1981. The highest value was 10.85% in 2004 and the lowest -10.74% in 2020.
- How does Namibia rank?
- 170th highest of 186 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in GDP per capita (annual % growth) unusual for Namibia?
- In 2025, Namibia's GDP per capita (annual % growth) fell 1.81 percentage points on 2024 (from 1.48% to -0.33%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.1 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.01 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 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 NY.GDP.PCAP.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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