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GDP Growth, 1983

1983, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP Growth, 1983 covers 165 countries. Oman is highest, at 16.666671; Mozambique is lowest, at -15.700002. The middle country reads 1.909078. Against 1982, 163 values changed (91 up, 72 down), 2 countries joined.

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GDP Growth · Data for 1983

HighestOman

16.666671

LowestMozambique

-15.700002

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, 1983, 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 165 countries · select a heading to sort

GDP Growth, 1983: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1OmanOMNWestern Asia16.666671
2MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia16.256295
3ChadTCDMiddle Africa15.678718
4Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia15.508004
5South KoreaKOREastern Asia13.466806
6BotswanaBWASouthern Africa13.146729
7IranIRNSouthern Asia11.086717
8GambiaGMBWestern Africa10.883228
9ChinaCHNEastern Asia10.771838
10BhutanBTNSouthern Asia10.431016
11MacauMACEastern Asia10.023576
12Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa9.520750
13TuvaluTUVPolynesia8.973600
14SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia8.554482
15EthiopiaETHEastern Africa8.235006
16KuwaitKWTWestern Asia7.938472
17IndiaINDSouthern Asia7.288893
18HondurasHNDCentral America6.995867
19CameroonCMRMiddle Africa6.866831
20PakistanPAKSouthern Asia6.778378
21BahrainBHRWestern Asia6.376377
22MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia6.252231
23RwandaRWAEastern Africa5.980350
24Hong KongHKGEastern Asia5.977069
25Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa5.853963

02In 1983

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Oman16.666671
  2. 2Maldives16.256295
  3. 3Chad15.678718
  4. 4Marshall Islands15.508004
  5. 5South Korea13.466806

Lowest

  1. 165Mozambique-15.700002
  2. 164Iraq-13.073312
  3. 163Somalia-11.576483
  4. 162Saudi Arabia-10.993441
  5. 161Nigeria-10.924085

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 1.909078. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031982 → 1983

Since 1982

What changed between 1982 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 163 in both
  • 91 · 72rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Tuvalu-16.009098 → 8.973600+24.982698
  • Kuwait-11.749103 → 7.938472+19.687575
  • Maldives-3.012212 → 16.256295+19.268507
  • Bahrain-7.556218 → 6.376377+13.932595
  • Gambia-0.764583 → 10.883228+11.647810

Fell most

+ Macau+ Uganda

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 1983.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 165 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 (1983). GDP Growth, 1983 [data set], describing 1983. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-growth/1983

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07Questions

GDP Growth, 1983: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP growth in GDP Growth, 1983?

Oman, at 16.666671, of the 165 countries in the file.

What year does GDP Growth, 1983 describe?

1983.

How many countries does GDP Growth, 1983 cover?

165.

Where can I download GDP Growth, 1983?

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, 1983 the newest?

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

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