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GDP Growth, 2008

2008, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP Growth, 2008 covers 206 countries. Nauru is highest, at 20.0000; Zimbabwe is lowest, at -17.6690. The middle country reads 3.7463. Against 2007, 205 values changed (57 up, 148 down), 1 country joined.

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GDP Growth · Data for 2008

HighestNauru

20.0000

LowestZimbabwe

-17.6690

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, 2008, 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 206 countries · select a heading to sort

GDP Growth, 2008: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NauruNRUMicronesia20.0000
2Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa17.7991
3QatarQATWestern Asia17.6630
4TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia14.7000
5Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia11.3948
6Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean11.3170
7RwandaRWAEastern Africa11.1612
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa10.7885
9AngolaAGOMiddle Africa10.7866
10AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia10.5914
11MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia10.2553
12BelarusBLREastern Europe10.2000
13PanamaPANCentral America10.1974
14ChinaCHNEastern Asia9.6688
15RomaniaROUEastern Europe9.3075
16GhanaGHAWestern Africa9.1498
17PeruPERSouth America9.1266
18LebanonLBNWestern Asia9.0691
19UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia9.0292
20MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia8.9765
21OmanOMNWestern Asia8.9501
22MongoliaMNGEastern Asia8.9004
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa8.7088
24KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia8.4016
25Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean8.2719

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Nauru20.0000
  2. 2Equatorial Guinea17.7991
  3. 3Qatar17.6630
  4. 4Turkmenistan14.7000
  5. 5Timor-Leste11.3948

Lowest

  1. 206Zimbabwe-17.6690
  2. 205Northern Mariana Islands-11.0698
  3. 204Eritrea-9.7830
  4. 203Marshall Islands-7.5663
  5. 202Andorra-5.5592

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3.7463. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 205values changed, of 205 in both
  • 57 · 148rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Turks and Caicos 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 2008.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 206 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 (2008). GDP Growth, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-growth/2008

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07Questions

GDP Growth, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP growth in GDP Growth, 2008?

Nauru, at 20.0000, of the 206 countries in the file.

What year does GDP Growth, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does GDP Growth, 2008 cover?

206.

Where can I download GDP Growth, 2008?

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, 2008 the newest?

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

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