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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2023

2023, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2023 covers 174 countries. Bhutan is highest, at 45.2657; Djibouti is lowest, at -3.7353. The middle country reads 22.9820. Against 2022, 174 values changed (58 up, 116 down), 1 left.

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Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) · Data for 2023

HighestBhutan

45.2657

LowestDjibouti

-3.7353

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), 2023, 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 174 countries · select a heading to sort

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2023: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BhutanBTNSouthern Asia45.2657
2MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa44.5440
3IranIRNSouthern Asia43.7728
4SenegalSENWestern Africa42.3150
5ChinaCHNEastern Asia41.1297
6TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa41.0024
7RwandaRWAEastern Africa38.3626
8AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa37.6169
9PanamaPANCentral America37.4929
10SamoaWSMPolynesia36.0681
11GreenlandGRLNorthern America35.9956
12PalauPLWMicronesia35.7028
13TürkiyeTURWestern Asia34.5883
14BeninBENWestern Africa34.5307
15IndiaINDSouthern Asia34.5047
16KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia34.4590
17DR CongoCODMiddle Africa34.0781
18KosovoXKXSouthern Europe33.9456
19MongoliaMNGEastern Asia33.9004
20CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia33.2945
21MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia33.0509
22UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia33.0291
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia31.8912
24VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia31.6683
25TajikistanTJKCentral Asia31.6513

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Bhutan45.2657
  2. 2Mauritania44.5440
  3. 3Iran43.7728
  4. 4Senegal42.3150
  5. 5China41.1297

Lowest

  1. 174Djibouti-3.7353
  2. 173Lebanon1.8975
  3. 172Sudan2.1728
  4. 171Equatorial Guinea5.2940
  5. 170Venezuela5.3260

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 22.9820. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 174values changed, of 174 in both
  • 58 · 116rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Qatar

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 2023.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 174 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 (2023). Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gross-capital-formation/2023

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07Questions

Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest investment (gross capital formation) in Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2023?

Bhutan, at 45.2657, of the 174 countries in the file.

What year does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2023 cover?

174.

Where can I download Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), 2023?

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), 2023 the newest?

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

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