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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1981

1981, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1981 covers 114 countries. Mongolia is highest, at 69.9559; Solomon Islands is lowest, at 3.5588. The middle country reads 25.3150. Against 1980, 111 values changed (58 up, 53 down), 3 countries joined.

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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) · Data for 1981

HighestMongolia

69.9559

LowestSolomon Islands

3.5588

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), 1981, 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 114 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1981: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MongoliaMNGEastern Asia69.9559
2IraqIRQWestern Asia61.8821
3Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa48.1632
4JordanJORWestern Asia46.0307
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia44.7832
6BotswanaBWASouthern Africa43.4057
7IranIRNSouthern Asia40.0758
8RwandaRWAEastern Africa38.9150
9LesothoLSOSouthern Africa37.5991
10AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa36.9906
11BahrainBHRWestern Asia36.5977
12AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe36.3861
13GabonGABMiddle Africa36.3506
14PortugalPRTSouthern Europe35.8475
15MadagascarMDGEastern Africa35.6879
16PanamaPANCentral America35.6289
17JapanJPNEastern Asia35.4997
18BulgariaBGREastern Europe35.4873
19MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia34.9869
20Hong KongHKGEastern Asia34.9393
21PeruPERSouth America34.7718
22FijiFJIMelanesia34.7348
23SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe34.7289
24CyprusCYPWestern Asia33.8128
25BhutanBTNSouthern Asia33.7651

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mongolia69.9559
  2. 2Iraq61.8821
  3. 3Republic of the Congo48.1632
  4. 4Jordan46.0307
  5. 5Singapore44.7832

Lowest

  1. 114Solomon Islands3.5588
  2. 113Uganda5.6083
  3. 112Central African Republic8.7394
  4. 111Senegal12.7337
  5. 110Burkina Faso14.1309

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 25.3150. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031980 → 1981

Since 1980

What changed between 1980 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 111values changed, of 111 in both
  • 58 · 53rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Somalia42.4716 → 27.5571−14.9145
  • Madagascar46.5897 → 35.6879−10.9018
  • Rwanda47.2290 → 38.9150−8.3140
  • Niger28.1132 → 20.2916−7.8216
  • Iran47.8649 → 40.0758−7.7891
+ Mongolia+ New Caledonia+ Philippines

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 1981.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 114 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 (1981). Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-capital-formation/1981

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07Questions

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest investment (gross capital formation) in Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1981?

Mongolia, at 69.9559, of the 114 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1981 cover?

114.

Where can I download Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1981?

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), 1981 the newest?

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

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