Economy & Growth in Lao People's Democratic Republic

231 indicators covering economy & growth for Lao People's Democratic Republic.

IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank
Annual GDP growth 4.1% 2024 down 45.7% 9th
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Producer Price Index 161.82 2025 up 62.7% 4th
Bananas — Producer Price Index 100.89 2025 up 1.4% 8th
Annual growth of exports of goods and services 10.5% 2016 down 27.3% 6th
Annual growth of imports of goods and services 4.6% 2016 down 75.3% 11th
Current account balance as a proportion of GDP 3.2% 2024 up 122.2% 3rd
Volume of remittances (in United States dollars) as a proportion of 1.5% 2024 up 5.5% 12th
Annual growth of the gross capital formation 7.0% 2016 down 74.4% 5th
Annual growth of households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure 4.5% 2016 down 2.4% 5th
Annual growth of the general government final consumption expenditure -0.3% 2016 down 103.4% 12th
Soya beans — Producer Price Index 141.3 2025 up 42.1% 5th
Sweet potatoes — Producer Price Index 183.43 2025 up 74.9% 1st
Portfolio investment, net 250.28 million 2024 up 168.2% 3rd
Agriculture value added share of GDP 21.0% 2023 up 17.1% 4th
Lemons and limes — Producer Price Index 91.31 2025 down 8.2% 5th
Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled (biological) — Producer Price 34.51 million LCU 2012 up 1,069.9% 1st
Cantaloupes and other melons — Producer Price Index 93.95 2025 down 5.5% 5th
Tax revenue as a proportion of GDP 12.1% 2022 down 11.0% 9th
Mangoes, guavas and mangosteens — Producer Price Index 99.53 2025 up 0.1% 4th
Cash surplus/deficit as a proportion of GDP -10.3% 2022 up 6.1% 2nd
Total official flows (disbursement) for Aid for Trade, by recipient 168.49 2024 up 26.2% 18th
Total official flows (commitments) for Aid for Trade, by recipient 289.89 2024 down 7.6% 17th
Annual broad money growth 39.1% 2010 down 15.0% 3rd
Cotton lint, ginned — Producer Price Index 140.26 2025 up 41.0% 3rd
Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled (biological) — Producer Price 34.51 million SLC 2012 up 1,069.9% 1st
Sugar cane — Producer Price Index 81.57 2025 down 18.0% 3rd
Total Expenditure (general government) — Value Standard Local Currency 43.50 million million SLC 2023 up 76.4% 3rd
Total Expenditure (general government) — Value US$ 2,459 million USD 2023 down 21.9% 6th
Total Expenditure (general government) — Value US$, 2015 prices 3,523 million USD 2023 up 7.3% 6th
Rice — Producer Price 2.60 million LCU 2016 up 160.5% 3rd
Cassava, fresh — Producer Price Index 131.83 2025 up 10.1% 4th
Meat of ducks, fresh or chilled — Producer Price Index 115.27 2025 up 15.9% 5th
Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled (biological) — Producer Price 4,310 USD 2012 up 381.9% 3rd
Pineapples — Producer Price Index 79 2025 down 20.6% 4th
15.4.2 Mountain area: Total — Value 170,811 km2 2021 unchanged 8th
15.4.2 Mountain area: Remaining moutain area — Value 170,690 km2 2021 unchanged 7th
Meat of ducks, fresh or chilled (biological) — Producer Price Index 115.79 2025 up 16.4% 5th
Total government revenue (budgetary central government) as a 14.8% 2022 down 29.0% 9th
Pomelos and grapefruits — Producer Price Index 104.4 2025 up 5.0% 6th
Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic 2 2019 unchanged 5th
Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic 2 2019 unchanged 6th
Tangerines, mandarins, clementines — Producer Price Index 54.69 2025 down 45.0% 5th
Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic 0 2019 2nd
Rice — Producer Price 2.50 million SLC 2013 up 149.6% 3rd
Total trade of tracked Environmentally Sound Technologies 634.73 million 2023 up 188.3% 12th
Rice — Producer Price 317.6 USD 2013 up 219.5% 7th
Coffee, green — Producer Price Index 103.23 2025 up 3.8% 3rd
Chillies and peppers, dry (Capsicum spp., Pimenta spp.), raw 100.94 2025 up 1.5% 4th
Bananas — Producer Price 3.30 million LCU 2013 up 22.2% 3rd
Labour share of GDP 48.0% 2025 up 1.5% 8th
Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods, services and 6.8% 2023 up 17.1% 8th
Meat of geese, fresh or chilled — Producer Price Index 136.88 2025 up 37.6% 3rd
Meat of geese, fresh or chilled (biological) — Producer Price Index 138.52 2025 up 39.3% 3rd
Eggs from other birds in shell, fresh, n.e.c. — Producer Price Index 54.42 2025 down 45.3% 2nd
Tea leaves — Producer Price Index 97.99 2025 down 1.5% 5th
Sweet potatoes — Producer Price 3.93 million LCU 2016 up 59.8% 2nd
Bananas — Producer Price 3.30 million SLC 2013 up 22.2% 3rd
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Producer Price 8.50 million LCU 2012 up 233.3% 2nd
Soya beans — Producer Price 7.88 million LCU 2016 up 141.6% 3rd
Bananas — Producer Price 419.9 USD 2013 up 56.4% 5th