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Laos: Real GDP

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2031 · rGDP

2025
180 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.4%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$22.1 billionUS dollars

Real GDP

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031219,600,000Forecast
2030213,300,000Forecast
2029207,100,000Forecast
2028201,000,000Forecast
2027194,200,000Forecast
2026186,800,000Forecast
2025179,600,000
2024171,800,000
2023165,000,000
2022159,100,000
2021154,900,000
2020151,100,000
2019150,300,000
2018142,500,000
2017134,100,000
2016125,500,000

Sources

  • Maddison Project Database1950–2022
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1963–2024
  • FAO1970–2023
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • World Development Indicators1984–2025
  • WDI (archive)1988–1997
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Laos documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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