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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2017

2017, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2017 covers 176 countries. Bhutan is highest, at 54.1678; Yemen is lowest, at 2.0723. The middle country reads 23.3665. Against 2016, 175 values changed (105 up, 70 down), 1 country joined, 1 left.

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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) · Data for 2017

HighestBhutan

54.1678

LowestYemen

2.0723

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), 2017, 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 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2017: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BhutanBTNSouthern Asia54.1678
2AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa48.2676
3Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa45.8945
4QatarQATWestern Asia43.4078
5MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia42.8197
6ChinaCHNEastern Asia42.5497
7PanamaPANCentral America41.4846
8ZambiaZMBEastern Africa41.0018
9Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia39.7266
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa38.4440
11MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa37.8825
12NepalNPLSouthern Asia37.3251
13Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia35.6345
14IranIRNSouthern Asia35.3405
15BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia34.8048
16KosovoXKXSouthern Europe34.6926
17IrelandIRLNorthern Europe34.0349
18OmanOMNWestern Asia33.8434
19IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia33.7106
20BahrainBHRWestern Asia33.5452
21KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia32.9021
22TürkiyeTURWestern Asia32.7947
23PalauPLWMicronesia32.7793
24TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa32.3541
25VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia32.3053

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Bhutan54.1678
  2. 2Algeria48.2676
  3. 3Republic of the Congo45.8945
  4. 4Qatar43.4078
  5. 5Maldives42.8197

Lowest

  1. 176Yemen2.0723
  2. 175Venezuela5.1149
  3. 174Puerto Rico7.7942
  4. 173Cuba10.2982
  5. 172Sudan10.7686

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 23.3665. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −1countries joined / left
  • 175values changed, of 175 in both
  • 105 · 70rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Malawi− Laos

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 2017.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 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 (2017). Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-capital-formation/2017

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07Questions

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest investment (gross capital formation) in Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2017?

Bhutan, at 54.1678, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2017 cover?

176.

Where can I download Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2017?

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), 2017 the newest?

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

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