São Tomé and Principe's broad money (% of GDP) was 21.37% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 27.73 percentage points from 49.1% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 21.37% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 32.95% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 49.1% | 2015 |
| Highest | 49.1% | 2015 |
| Lowest | 12.59% | 1996 |
| Average since 2016 | 30.86% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 13.81% | 1995 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, São Tomé and Principe's broad money (% of GDP) rose 1.15 percentage points on 2024 (from 20.22% to 21.37%).
Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2024), the average change was +0.22 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.76 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 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 6.81 percentage points in 1997 and the biggest yearly fall was 7.59 percentage points in 2016. 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 2.42 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 97% 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.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 12.04% for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 4.63%, against 6.28% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, São Tomé and Principe had the 80th highest value of the 84 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| São Tomé and Principe | 21.37% | 2025 |
| World | 135.66% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 42.61% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 67.37% | 2021 |
Closest to São Tomé and Principe in the 2025 ranking
- Argentina — 76th of 84: 26.28%
- Sierra Leone — 77th of 84: 22.56%
- Uganda — 78th of 84: 22.3%
- South Sudan — 80th of 84: 21.02%
- Uzbekistan — 81st of 84: 20.47%
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 82nd of 84: 17.64%
What this measures
Broad money is the sum of all liquid financial instruments held by money-holding sectors that are widely accepted in an economy as a medium of exchange, plus those that can be converted into a medium of exchange at short notice at, or close to, their full nominal value. 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.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 31 values
| Year | Broad money (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 21.37 |
| 2024 | 20.22 |
| 2023 | 24.03 |
| 2022 | 28.16 |
| 2021 | 29.95 |
| 2020 | 32.95 |
| 2019 | 33.41 |
| 2018 | 38.72 |
| 2017 | 38.23 |
| 2016 | 41.51 |
| 2015 |
Broad money (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 13.79% (2025)
- Benin — 29.58% (2025)
- Botswana — 44.1% (2024)
- Burkina Faso — 43.31% (2025)
- Burundi — 44.6% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 94.18% (2025)
- Cameroon — 21.4% (2018)
- Central African Republic — 32.9% (2022)
- Chad — 15.98% (2021)
- Comoros — 36.1% (2025)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 17.64% (2025)
- Congo, Rep.
More financial sector data for São Tomé and Principe
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$21.69 (2025)
- Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$21.75 (2025)
- GDP deflator (base year varies by country) — 497.42 (2025)
- Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) — 11.94% (2025)
- Inflation, GDP deflator, linked series (annual % growth) — 11.94% (2025)
- GDP deflator, linked series (base year varies by country) — 497.42 (2025)
- Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 6.68% (2025)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 4.55 billion (2025)
- Broad money to total reserves ratio
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is São Tomé and Principe's broad money (% of GDP)?
- 21.37% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1995?
- It is up 7.57 percentage points from 13.81% in 1995. The highest value was 49.1% in 2015 and the lowest 12.59% in 1996.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator FM.LBL.BMNY.GD.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Development Indicators Database, World Bank (WB); National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 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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