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GDP Growth, 2003

2003, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP Growth, 2003 covers 204 countries. Kuwait is highest, at 17.3260; Iraq is lowest, at -36.6568. The middle country reads 3.9419. Against 2002, 200 values changed (117 up, 83 down), 4 countries joined.

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GDP Growth · Data for 2003

HighestKuwait

17.3260

LowestIraq

-36.6568

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, 2003, 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 204 countries · select a heading to sort

GDP Growth, 2003: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1KuwaitKWTWestern Asia17.3260
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa14.7217
3Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean14.4410
4PalestinePSEWestern Asia14.0156
5ArmeniaARMWestern Asia14.0000
6Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa13.9553
7MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia13.8440
8MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia13.7500
9LibyaLBYNorthern Africa13.0160
10MacauMACEastern Asia11.6434
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia11.0570
12TajikistanTJKCentral Asia11.0000
13LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe10.5519
14CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia10.2837
15AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia10.2083
16ChinaCHNEastern Asia10.1138
17MaliMLIWestern Africa9.7971
18MadagascarMDGEastern Africa9.7849
19BelizeBLZCentral America9.6652
20UkraineUKREastern Europe9.5166
21Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa9.4836
22GrenadaGRDCaribbean9.4640
23KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia9.3000
24ArgentinaARGSouth America8.8370
25AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia8.8323

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kuwait17.3260
  2. 2Chad14.7217
  3. 3Trinidad and Tobago14.4410
  4. 4Palestine14.0156
  5. 5Armenia14.0000

Lowest

  1. 204Iraq-36.6568
  2. 203Liberia-30.1451
  3. 202Zimbabwe-16.9951
  4. 201Venezuela-7.7519
  5. 200Seychelles-5.8871

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3.9419. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −0countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 117 · 83rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ American Samoa+ Guam+ Northern Mariana Islands+ United States Virgin Islands

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 2003.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 204 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 (2003). GDP Growth, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-growth/2003

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07Questions

GDP Growth, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP growth in GDP Growth, 2003?

Kuwait, at 17.3260, of the 204 countries in the file.

What year does GDP Growth, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does GDP Growth, 2003 cover?

204.

Where can I download GDP Growth, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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