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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1999

1999, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1999 covers 154 countries. Eritrea is highest, at 45.5142; Sierra Leone is lowest, at 0.2929. The middle country reads 21.5938. Against 1998, 154 values changed (56 up, 98 down), the same countries are covered.

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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) · Data for 1999

HighestEritrea

45.5142

LowestSierra Leone

0.2929

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), 1999, 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 154 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1999: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1EritreaERIEastern Africa45.5142
2MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa44.3029
3SeychellesSYCEastern Africa42.9062
4PalestinePSEWestern Asia42.8755
5TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia39.6709
6IraqIRQWestern Asia38.3923
7BhutanBTNSouthern Asia35.2474
8RwandaRWAEastern Africa35.0359
9ChinaCHNEastern Asia34.2336
10NicaraguaNICCentral America33.0027
11SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia32.6915
12IranIRNSouthern Asia32.5417
13HondurasHNDCentral America32.3508
14MongoliaMNGEastern Asia31.6881
15South KoreaKOREastern Asia31.2531
16IndiaINDSouthern Asia30.9581
17ArubaABWCaribbean30.8690
18SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe29.9860
19CzechiaCZEEastern Europe29.7451
20JapanJPNEastern Asia29.2509
21SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe29.1616
22PanamaPANCentral America29.0771
23PortugalPRTSouthern Europe29.0278
24BahamasBHSCaribbean28.7524
25SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe28.0383

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Eritrea45.5142
  2. 2Mozambique44.3029
  3. 3Seychelles42.9062
  4. 4Palestine42.8755
  5. 5Turkmenistan39.6709

Lowest

  1. 154Sierra Leone0.2929
  2. 153DR Congo3.0690
  3. 152Gambia4.7550
  4. 151Solomon Islands6.9035
  5. 150Bahrain6.9523

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 21.5938. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 154values changed, of 154 in both
  • 56 · 98rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Gabon39.5577 → 26.1686−13.3891
  • Qatar31.9716 → 18.8823−13.0893
  • Botswana37.9367 → 25.6260−12.3107
  • Bahrain18.8405 → 6.9523−11.8882
  • Oman38.1439 → 27.6430−10.5009

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 1999.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 154 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 (1999). Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-capital-formation/1999

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07Questions

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest investment (gross capital formation) in Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1999?

Eritrea, at 45.5142, of the 154 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1999 cover?

154.

Where can I download Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 1999?

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), 1999 the newest?

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

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