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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP)

56 years, 1970–2025 · 131 countries

Gross capital formation is the share of a year’s output a country put into building things rather than consuming them — roads, plant, housing, plus the change in inventories, which is why the figure can dip slightly below zero. It is the standard read on how much an economy is investing in its own future.

This site holds every year from 1970 to 2025, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2025
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56 years · 7,973 rows
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0156 years

Every year

Every year comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

1970bar height: countries covered, up to 1772025
Every year of Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2025Newest131−38September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2024169−5September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2023174−1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2022175±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2021175±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2020175+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2019174−2September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2018176±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2017176+1 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2016176−1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2015177+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2014175+1September 6, 2026CSV
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YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2013174+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2012172+2 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2011171+1 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2010171+2 −2September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2009171+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2008170+3 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2007168+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2006166+2 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2005165+4 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2004162+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2003161+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2002160+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2001159+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2000158+4September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1999154±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1998154+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1997152±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1996152+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1995151+9September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1994142+2 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1993141+4September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1992137+3 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1991135+3 −3September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1990135+13September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1989122+2 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1988121+2 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1987120+2 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1986119+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1985118±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1984118+2 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1983117+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1982115+2 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1981114+3September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1980111+12September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 197999−1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1978100±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1977100+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 197699+4 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 197596+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 197494±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 197394±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 197294±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 197194±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 197094—September 6, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: gross-capital-formation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1310
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1310
Gross capital formation (% of GDP)gross_capital_formationHeadlineThe headline figure: Gross capital formation (% of GDP).Number · up to 15 decimals-3.679Equatorial Guinea45.267Algeriamiddle 22.9321310

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

03186 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa494948494949494949494843
Americas303030303029292929292719
Asia434444434342434343424128
Europe414242424242424242424139
Oceania12121212121212121212122
All175177176176176174175175175174169131

The newest 12 of 56 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2025
    − Aruba− Afghanistan− Angola− Albania− Bahrain− Bahamas− Belize− Bermuda− Bolivia− Bhutan− China− Cuba− Fiji− Faroe Islands− Ghana− Iraq− Japan− Kazakhstan− Kiribati− Kuwait− Lebanon− Maldives− Marshall Islands− New Caledonia− New Zealand− Oman− Panama− Palau− French Polynesia− Solomon Islands− Eswatini− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Tonga− United States− Vanuatu− Zambia− Zimbabwe
  • 2024
    − United Arab Emirates− Greenland− San Marino− Togo− Trinidad and Tobago
  • 2023
    − Qatar
  • 2020
    + Afghanistan
  • 2019
    − Curaçao− Yemen
  • 2017
    + Malawi− Laos
  • 2016
    − South Sudan
  • 2015
    + Sri Lanka+ San Marino

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Bank Group

  2. 2 · Their file

    Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) 2025

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    56 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as gross-capital-formation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 15 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

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.

Pulled from the World Bank’s indicator API (NE.GDI.TOTL.ZS). 58 country-years the Bank records as exactly 0 are treated as missing — Ethiopia has a 30-year run and Venezuela a 21-year one, both flanked by ordinary figures, so they are gaps written as a number.

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What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 6, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1970–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-capital-formation

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. World Development Indicators. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP): questions and answers

What is the Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP)?

Gross capital formation is the share of a year’s output a country put into building things rather than consuming them — roads, plant, housing, plus the change in inventories, which is why the figure can dip slightly below zero. It is the standard read on how much an economy is investing in its own future.

Which years of the Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) can I download?

All 56, from 1970 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?

No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.

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