World: GDP per capita (annual % growth)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, World's GDP per capita (annual % growth) rose 0.07 percentage points on 2024 (from 1.91% to 1.99%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.59 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 9.44 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 5.45 percentage points 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 1% 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.

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 65 values

GDP per capita (annual % growth) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — -0.98% (2024)
• Algeria — 2.46% (2025)
• Bahrain — 2.73% (2025)
• Djibouti — 5.11% (2025)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 2.78% (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — -3.72% (2025)
• Iraq — -4.19% (2025)
• Israel — 1.7% (2025)
• Jordan — 3.11% (2025)
• Kuwait — 3.41% (2025)
• Lebanon — -7.6% (2024)

More economic policy & debt data for World

• Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments (BoP, current US$) — US$753.95 billion (2025)
• Portfolio equity, net inflows (BoP, current US$) — US$1.88 trillion (2025)
• GDP (current US$) — US$118.35 trillion (2025)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$99.66 trillion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$14,406 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$12,131 (2025)
• GNI (current US$) — US$117.7 trillion (2025)
• GDP (annual % growth) — 2.92% (2025)
• Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts (BoP, current US$) — US$628.85 billion (2025)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Austria (current US$)

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Questions people ask

What is World's GDP per capita (annual % growth)?

1.99% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1961?

It is down 0.53 percentage points from 2.51% in 1961. The highest value was 5.6% in 2021 and the lowest -3.83% in 2020.

Is the latest change in GDP per capita (annual % growth) unusual for World?

In 2025, World's GDP per capita (annual % growth) rose 0.07 percentage points on 2024 (from 1.91% to 1.99%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.59 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, 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).

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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