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United Kingdom: Gross capital formation (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1830–2025 · 196 observations · forecasts to 2031 · inv_GDP

2025
19.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.6 pointsfrom 19.0%
Average, 2016–2025
18.8%10 years
Record high and low
25.1% (1989)low 0.921% (1944)

Gross capital formation (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203121.0Forecast
203020.8Forecast
202920.6Forecast
202820.6Forecast
202720.5Forecast
202620.4Forecast
202519.6
202419.0
202318.5
202218.3
202118.9
202018.3
201919.0
201818.9
201719.1
201618.6

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

United Kingdom 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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