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GDP Growth, 1988

1988, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP Growth, 1988 covers 174 countries. New Caledonia is highest, at 34.60000; Panama is lowest, at -13.37984. The middle country reads 4.89241. Against 1987, 171 values changed (101 up, 70 down), 3 countries joined.

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GDP Growth · Data for 1988

HighestNew Caledonia

34.60000

LowestPanama

-13.37984

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, 1988, 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 174 countries · select a heading to sort

GDP Growth, 1988: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia34.60000
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia22.04542
3BotswanaBWASouthern Africa19.44997
4TuvaluTUVPolynesia19.30700
5ArubaABWCaribbean18.64865
6SyriaSYRWestern Asia18.01114
7ChadTCDMiddle Africa15.48236
8Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean14.07469
9TajikistanTJKCentral Asia13.90000
10Saint LuciaLCACaribbean13.89966
11ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia13.28811
12KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia13.20003
13GabonGABMiddle Africa12.84535
14South KoreaKOREastern Asia12.13320
15CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia11.97691
16MoroccoMARNorthern Africa11.87524
17Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe11.82936
18SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia11.26359
19ChinaCHNEastern Asia11.22091
20TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia11.02362
21BulgariaBGREastern Europe10.94469
22MaliMLIWestern Africa10.80570
23MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia9.93772
24BelizeBLZCentral America9.78848
25IndiaINDSouthern Asia9.62778

02In 1988

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1New Caledonia34.60000
  2. 2Kiribati22.04542
  3. 3Botswana19.44997
  4. 4Tuvalu19.30700
  5. 5Aruba18.64865

Lowest

  1. 174Panama-13.37984
  2. 173Nicaragua-12.44982
  3. 172Myanmar-11.35244
  4. 171Kuwait-10.05262
  5. 170Peru-9.44127

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.89241. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 171values changed, of 171 in both
  • 101 · 70rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Gabon-17.14604 → 12.84535+29.99140
  • New Caledonia5.70000 → 34.60000+28.90000
  • Libya-14.70205 → 7.57902+22.28108
  • Kiribati1.29273 → 22.04542+20.75268
  • Chad-2.38881 → 15.48236+17.87117

Fell most

  • Bhutan29.05432 → 4.76737−24.28695
  • Peru9.72615 → -9.44127−19.16742
  • Kuwait8.14615 → -10.05262−18.19877
  • Sudan14.22088 → -0.33109−14.55198
  • Sierra Leone7.23127 → -7.08000−14.31127
+ Turkmenistan+ Ukraine+ Uzbekistan

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 1988.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 174 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 (1988). GDP Growth, 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-growth/1988

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07Questions

GDP Growth, 1988: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP growth in GDP Growth, 1988?

New Caledonia, at 34.60000, of the 174 countries in the file.

What year does GDP Growth, 1988 describe?

1988.

How many countries does GDP Growth, 1988 cover?

174.

Where can I download GDP Growth, 1988?

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, 1988 the newest?

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

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