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Sao Tome and Principe: Gross capital formation (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · inv_GDP

2025
10.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.2 pointsfrom 8.30%
Average, 2016–2025
11.0%10 years
Record high and low
68.1% (1995)low 6.31% (2023)

Gross capital formation (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203110.1Forecast
203010.0Forecast
202910.0Forecast
202810.1Forecast
202710.2Forecast
202610.1Forecast
202510.5
20248.30
20236.31
20228.29
202110.3
202011.8
201912.0
201813.8
201715.3
201613.1

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Sao Tome and Principe 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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