COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Eritrea GDP Growth
Eritrea gdp growth: latest available value for 2019, historical series from 1993, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3,80 | -9,20 |
| 2018 | 13,00 | 23,00 |
| 2017 | -10,00 | -17,40 |
| 2016 | 7,40 | 28,00 |
| 2015 | -20,60 | -51,50 |
| 2014 | 30,90 | 41,40 |
| 2013 | -10,50 | -12,40 |
| 2012 | 1,90 | -23,80 |
| 2011 | 25,70 | 14,80 |
| 2010 | 10,90 | -1,30 |
| 2009 | 12,20 | 31,60 |
| 2008 | -19,40 | -20,80 |
| 2007 | 1,40 | 2,40 |
| 2006 | -1,00 | -3,60 |
| 2005 | 2,60 | 1,10 |
| 2004 | 1,50 | 4,20 |
| 2003 | -2,70 | -5,70 |
| 2002 | 3,00 | -5,80 |
| 2001 | 8,80 | 21,20 |
| 2000 | -12,40 | -12,60 |
| 1999 | 0,20 | -1,80 |
| 1998 | 2,00 | -5,90 |
| 1997 | 7,90 | -1,20 |
| 1996 | 9,10 | 6,80 |
| 1995 | 2,30 | -18,60 |
| 1994 | 20,90 | 8,00 |
| 1993 | 12,90 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: 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. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Source organization: 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)
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Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesEritrea recorded 3,80 percent in 2019, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2018, the gdp growth decreased by 9,20.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.
Across 27 observations from 1993 to 2019, the average was 3,77; the minimum was -20,60 in 2015 and the maximum was 30,90 in 2014.
Eritrea ranks 86 out of 214 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It is also below the available average for the Low income group.
Economic expansion or contraction in real terms.