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GDP Growth, 2005

2005, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP Growth, 2005 covers 204 countries. Azerbaijan is highest, at 27.961538; Northern Mariana Islands is lowest, at -12.702893. The middle country reads 4.739967. Against 2004, 204 values changed (89 up, 115 down), the same countries are covered.

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GDP Growth · Data for 2005

HighestAzerbaijan

27.961538

LowestNorthern Mariana Islands

-12.702893

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia27.961538
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa17.332534
3Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa16.748701
4AngolaAGOMiddle Africa14.154778
5ArmeniaARMWestern Asia13.900000
6MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia13.568950
7CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia13.303334
8GrenadaGRDCaribbean13.276188
9TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia13.034035
10LibyaLBYNorthern Africa11.870757
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa11.818766
12LatviaLVANorthern Europe11.615318
13ChinaCHNEastern Asia11.453513
14PalestinePSEWestern Asia11.290651
15AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia11.229715
16CubaCUBCaribbean11.201656
17KuwaitKWTWestern Asia10.609045
18VenezuelaVENSouth America10.189573
19Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean9.732821
20KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia9.700000
21GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia9.591138
22EstoniaESTNorthern Europe9.523054
23Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean9.431789
24BelarusBLREastern Europe9.400002
25RwandaRWAEastern Africa9.377899

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Azerbaijan27.961538
  2. 2Chad17.332534
  3. 3Equatorial Guinea16.748701
  4. 4Angola14.154778
  5. 5Armenia13.900000

Lowest

  1. 204Northern Mariana Islands-12.702893
  2. 203Maldives-11.177310
  3. 202Zimbabwe-5.711125
  4. 201Togo-4.666299
  5. 200Tuvalu-3.746649

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.739967. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 204values changed, of 204 in both
  • 89 · 115rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Iraq53.385547 → 1.675229−51.710319
  • Equatorial Guinea37.998727 → 16.748701−21.250026
  • Macau26.636874 → 8.077949−18.558925
  • Maldives5.924893 → -11.177310−17.102202
  • Chad33.629372 → 17.332534−16.296838

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 2005.

  • 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 (2005). GDP Growth, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-growth/2005

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07Questions

GDP Growth, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP growth in GDP Growth, 2005?

Azerbaijan, at 27.961538, of the 204 countries in the file.

What year does GDP Growth, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does GDP Growth, 2005 cover?

204.

Where can I download GDP Growth, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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