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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972

1972, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972 covers 94 countries. Botswana is highest, at 50.9441; Bangladesh is lowest, at 4.6977. The middle country reads 21.9362. Against 1971, 94 values changed (44 up, 50 down), the same countries are covered.

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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) · Data for 1972

HighestBotswana

50.9441

LowestBangladesh

4.6977

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972, 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BotswanaBWASouthern Africa50.9441
2GabonGABMiddle Africa48.1106
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe43.7569
4SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia40.8646
5JapanJPNEastern Asia40.3704
6IranIRNSouthern Asia40.1056
7PanamaPANCentral America39.3583
8GreeceGRCSouthern Europe38.5311
9VenezuelaVENSouth America37.7622
10IsraelISRWestern Asia35.7226
11AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa34.3025
12AustriaAUTWestern Europe32.4058
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe31.3331
14ChinaCHNEastern Asia31.1982
15GermanyDEUWestern Europe31.1281
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe30.6263
17AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand30.3813
18Puerto RicoPRICaribbean29.9768
19OmanOMNWestern Asia29.8295
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe29.4134
21Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa29.0821
22SwedenSWENorthern Europe28.7888
23PortugalPRTSouthern Europe28.7382
24FranceFRAWestern Europe28.0824
25RwandaRWAEastern Africa27.9723

02In 1972

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Botswana50.9441
  2. 2Gabon48.1106
  3. 3Switzerland43.7569
  4. 4Singapore40.8646
  5. 5Japan40.3704

Lowest

  1. 94Bangladesh4.6977
  2. 93Ghana7.1048
  3. 92Gambia7.2266
  4. 91Nepal7.3295
  5. 90Madagascar8.8198

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 21.9362. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031971 → 1972

Since 1971

What changed between 1971 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 94values changed, of 94 in both
  • 44 · 50rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Gabon31.9695 → 48.1106+16.1411
  • Iran34.8056 → 40.1056+5.3000
  • Iraq15.3249 → 19.9562+4.6312
  • Mauritania11.5865 → 15.4167+3.8302
  • Zimbabwe20.1711 → 23.7047+3.5336

Fell most

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 1972.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 94 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 (1972). Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972 [data set], describing 1972. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-capital-formation/1972

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07Questions

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972: questions and answers

Which country has the highest investment (gross capital formation) in Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972?

Botswana, at 50.9441, of the 94 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972 describe?

1972.

How many countries does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972 cover?

94.

Where can I download Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1972 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2025.

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