Malawi vs Namibia: GDP per capita growth

Malawi
-0.7%
in 2025
Namibia
-0.3%
in 2025
Malawi rank
188th
Namibia rank
186th

GDP per capita growth over time

  • Malawi
  • Namibia
-1001020196119932025

How they compare

Namibia currently reports -0.3% against -0.7% in Malawi, a difference of 0.4%.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1981 it was Namibia ahead.

Globally, Malawi ranks 188th and Namibia ranks 186th of 214 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
GDP per capita growth (annual %)
Unit
annual %
Source
Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
261 places, 14,323 data points, 1961–2025
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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.