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GDP Growth, 1971

1971, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP Growth, 1971 covers 142 countries. United Arab Emirates is highest, at 36.612378; Algeria is lowest, at -11.331719. The middle country reads 4.453760. Against 1970, 119 values changed (46 up, 73 down), 23 countries joined.

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GDP Growth · Data for 1971

HighestUnited Arab Emirates

36.612378

LowestAlgeria

-11.331719

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of GDP Growth, 1971, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 142 countries · select a heading to sort

GDP Growth, 1971: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia36.612378
2BotswanaBWASouthern Africa25.821107
3KenyaKENEastern Africa22.173892
4MalawiMWIEastern Africa16.218564
5SeychellesSYCEastern Africa15.851776
6Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia15.229107
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa14.237532
8EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa13.743634
9IranIRNSouthern Asia13.701583
10SamoaWSMPolynesia13.513514
11GreenlandGRLNorthern America13.060851
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.060838
13SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia12.413437
14French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia12.002409
15BrazilBRASouth America11.342922
16IsraelISRWestern Asia10.951071
17Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean10.871466
18South KoreaKOREastern Asia10.651401
19TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa10.560197
20GabonGABMiddle Africa10.258731
21MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia10.034661
22QatarQATWestern Asia10.007852
23PanamaPANCentral America9.616138
24ChileCHLSouth America9.571074
25Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa9.456638

02In 1971

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United Arab Emirates36.612378
  2. 2Botswana25.821107
  3. 3Kenya22.173892
  4. 4Malawi16.218564
  5. 5Seychelles15.851776

Lowest

  1. 142Algeria-11.331719
  2. 141Bangladesh-5.479483
  3. 140Libya-5.277525
  4. 139Guinea-Bissau-3.910967
  5. 138Kiribati-2.290060

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.453760. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031970 → 1971

Since 1970

What changed between 1970 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 119 in both
  • 46 · 73rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Tanzania-46.433035 → 3.901461+50.334496
  • Kenya-4.655447 → 22.173892+26.829339
  • Malawi0.479298 → 16.218564+15.739266
  • Syria-1.796853 → 8.955815+10.752667
  • French Polynesia1.626711 → 12.002409+10.375697

Fell most

+ Andorra+ United Arab Emirates+ Bahrain+ Bhutan+ Cuba+ Micronesia+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Greenland+ Kiribati+ Kuwait+ Liechtenstein+ Monaco+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Malta+ Nauru+ Palau+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Eswatini+ Tuvalu+ Samoa

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1971.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 142 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1971). GDP Growth, 1971 [data set], describing 1971. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-growth/1971

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07Questions

GDP Growth, 1971: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP growth in GDP Growth, 1971?

United Arab Emirates, at 36.612378, of the 142 countries in the file.

What year does GDP Growth, 1971 describe?

1971.

How many countries does GDP Growth, 1971 cover?

142.

Where can I download GDP Growth, 1971?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is GDP Growth, 1971 the newest?

No. The newest held here is GDP Growth, 2025.

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