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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2018

2018, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2018 covers 176 countries. Bhutan is highest, at 54.0155; Djibouti is lowest, at 2.7869. The middle country reads 23.0036. Against 2017, 176 values changed (105 up, 71 down), the same countries are covered.

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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) · Data for 2018

HighestBhutan

54.0155

LowestDjibouti

2.7869

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), 2018, 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), 2018: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BhutanBTNSouthern Asia54.0155
2MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia48.9702
3AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa46.4569
4MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa46.4331
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa45.9808
6ChinaCHNEastern Asia43.3138
7QatarQATWestern Asia41.6182
8PanamaPANCentral America41.1991
9CuraçaoCUWCaribbean41.0674
10BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia41.0666
11NepalNPLSouthern Asia39.5478
12MongoliaMNGEastern Asia39.3779
13ZambiaZMBEastern Africa38.5886
14TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa38.3766
15Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia38.0568
16TajikistanTJKCentral Asia37.2634
17KosovoXKXSouthern Europe36.2945
18IranIRNSouthern Asia36.2051
19KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia36.0166
20Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia35.9233
21BahrainBHRWestern Asia35.5603
22IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia34.5706
23EthiopiaETHEastern Africa34.1630
24UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia33.4960
25SamoaWSMPolynesia33.1402

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Bhutan54.0155
  2. 2Maldives48.9702
  3. 3Algeria46.4569
  4. 4Mauritania46.4331
  5. 5Mozambique45.9808

Lowest

  1. 176Djibouti2.7869
  2. 175Venezuela4.2769
  3. 174Yemen6.1767
  4. 173Sudan9.9894
  5. 172Cuba12.0336

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 23.0036. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 176values changed, of 176 in both
  • 105 · 71rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

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 2018.

  • 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 (2018). Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-capital-formation/2018

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07Questions

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest investment (gross capital formation) in Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2018?

Bhutan, at 54.0155, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2018 cover?

176.

Where can I download Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2018?

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), 2018 the newest?

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

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