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GDP Growth, 1990

1990, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP Growth, 1990 covers 176 countries. Iraq is highest, at 57.817828; Liberia is lowest, at -51.030865. The middle country reads 3.413137. Against 1989, 175 values changed (73 up, 102 down), 1 country joined.

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GDP Growth · Data for 1990

HighestIraq

57.817828

LowestLiberia

-51.030865

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, 1990, 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 176 countries · select a heading to sort

GDP Growth, 1990: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1IraqIRQWestern Asia57.817828
2TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia35.384558
3LebanonLBNWestern Asia26.533160
4HondurasHNDCentral America21.171367
5EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa21.018001
6United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia18.327723
7MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia16.952297
8TuvaluTUVPolynesia15.375998
9IranIRNSouthern Asia13.594926
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa11.776886
11VanuatuVUTMelanesia11.695700
12BelizeBLZCentral America11.342943
13ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia11.167163
14BhutanBTNSouthern Asia10.383118
15South KoreaKOREastern Asia10.024900
16Saint LuciaLCACaribbean9.890702
17SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia9.820900
18Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia9.426099
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia9.266147
20MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia9.008527
21BeninBENWestern Africa8.976134
22IrelandIRLNorthern Europe8.466528
23PanamaPANCentral America8.098993
24MacauMACEastern Asia7.979437
25TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa7.949819

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Iraq57.817828
  2. 2Turkmenistan35.384558
  3. 3Lebanon26.533160
  4. 4Honduras21.171367
  5. 5Eswatini21.018001

Lowest

  1. 176Liberia-51.030865
  2. 175Kuwait-26.228893
  3. 174Georgia-14.788785
  4. 173Greenland-11.719533
  5. 172Albania-9.575640

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3.413137. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 175values changed, of 175 in both
  • 73 · 102rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Lebanon-42.451118 → 26.533160+68.984278
  • Iraq-3.118535 → 57.817828+60.936364
  • Turkmenistan-4.255320 → 35.384558+39.639878
  • Venezuela-14.010989 → 6.709265+20.720254
  • Syria-13.647282 → 3.739556+17.386838

Fell most

  • Kuwait25.892857 → -26.228893−52.121750
  • Liberia-26.668449 → -51.030865−24.362416
  • Albania9.836549 → -9.575640−19.412189
  • Greenland6.659545 → -11.719533−18.379078
  • Sudan8.931394 → -5.470054−14.401447
+ Russia

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 1990.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 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 (1990). GDP Growth, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-growth/1990

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07Questions

GDP Growth, 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP growth in GDP Growth, 1990?

Iraq, at 57.817828, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does GDP Growth, 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does GDP Growth, 1990 cover?

176.

Where can I download GDP Growth, 1990?

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, 1990 the newest?

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

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