List of African countries by GDP (nominal)

This is a list of the countries in Africa in order of nominal gross domestic product (GDP).

GDP (Nominal)

Map of Africa by 2008 nominal GDP (billions USD):

  above 200

  100-200

  50-100

  20-50

  10-20

  5-10

  1-5

  below 1

This is a list of African countries sorted by their nominal gross domestic product (GDP), the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. The GDP dollar values presented here are calculated at market or government official exchange rates by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff. 2010, 2011, and some of 2009 values are estimates. GDP of Africa is 2.5% of the total GDP of the world in 2008, and to be estimated as 2.3% of the world GDP in 2009.

Rank	Country	2009 (Billion USD)	2010 (Billion USD)	2011 (Billion USD)	2012 (Billion USD)
	World	57,920.270	62,909.274	69,659.630	71,707,302
	Africa	1,476.179	1,730.072	1,880.380
1	South Africa	283.977	357.259	408.074	384.315
2	Nigeria	168.846	216.803	238.920	268.708
3	Egypt	188.608	218.466	235.719	256.729
4	Algeria	139.763	160.270	190.709	207.794
5	Angola	75.508	85.312	100.948	118.719
6	Morocco	91.374	103.482	99.241	97.530
7	Sudan	55.802	68.441	64.750	59.941
8	Tunisia	43.523	44.290	46.360	45.611
9	Ghana	25.988	31.084	37.158	38.939
10	Libya	60.239	74.232	36.874	81.915
11	Kenya	29.394	32.163	34.796	41.117
12	Ethiopia	32.249	29.717	31.256	41.906
13	Cameroon	21.820	22.478	25.759	25.005
14	Ivory Coast	22.909	22.823	24.096	24.627
15	Tanzania	22.159	22.671	23.333	28.247
16	Equatorial Guinea	11.175	14.485	19.805
17	Zambia	12.805	16.192	19.206
18	Botswana	10.808	14.030	17.570
19	Uganda	15.804	17.011	16.810
20	Gabon	10.936	13.056	16.176
21	Democratic Republic of the Congo	11.108	13.125	15.668
22	Republic of the Congo	8.632	11.530	14.769
23	Senegal	12.610	12.877	14.461
24	Mozambique	9.654	9.893	12.827
25	Namibia	9.039	11.865	12.461
26	Mauritius	9.156	9.729	11.313
27	Mali	8.757	9.268	10.600
28	Madagascar	8.974	8.345	10.025
29	Burkina Faso	7.780	8.781	9.981
30	Chad	6.974	7.848	9.344
31	Zimbabwe	5.836	7.474	9.323
32	Benin	6.401	6.649	7.306
33	Rwanda	5.011	5.622	6.179
34	Niger	5.323	5.577	6.022
35	Malawi	4.909	5.053	5.673
36	Guinea	4.436	4.633	5.212
37	Mauritania	3.241	3.799	4.200
38	Swaziland	2.929	3.553	3.947
39	Togo	2.771	3.194	3.611
40	Eritrea	1.694	2.117	2.609
41	Lesotho	1.624	2.127	2.453
42	Burundi	1.410	1.489	2.356
43	Sierra Leone	2.064	1.905	2.196
44	Central African Republic	1.983	2.018	2.165
45	Cape Verde	1.755	1.651	1.903
46	Djibouti	1.089	1.140	1.239
47	Liberia	0.868	0.974	1.154
48	Seychelles	0.656	0.936	1.014
49	The Gambia	0.983	1.067	0.977
50	Guinea-Bissau	0.438	0.837	0.969
51	Comoros	0.525	0.534	0.614
52	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.189	0.196	0.248

GDP (Nominal) per capita

Map of Africa by 2008 nominal GDP per capita (USD)

Countries by GDP per person, converted to US dollar through estimated IMF exchange rates.

Rank	Country	GDP - per capita (USD) 2009	GDP - per capita (USD) 2010	Estimation of 2011
1	Equatorial Guinea	8,759	11,045	14,660
2	Seychelles	7,683	10,727	11,170
3	Gabon	7,414	8,820	10,653
4	Botswana	5,995	8,116	9,480
5	Mauritius	7,146	7,582	8,776
6	South Africa	5,635	7,270	8,066
7	Namibia	4,341	5,244	5,828
8	Libya	9,570	12,248	5,691
9	Algeria	3,816	4,538	5,304
10	Angola	4,027	4,328	5,143
11	Tunisia	3,794	4,199	4,351
12	Republic of the Congo	2,298	3,112	3,713
13	Cape Verde	3,419	3,242	3,660
14	Swaziland	2,854	3,131	3,358
15	Morocco	2,847	2,850	3,083
16	Egypt	2,450	2,808	2,970
17	Sudan	1,388	1,625	1,982
18	Ghana	639	1,363	1,528
19	Nigeria	1,089	1,261	1,490
20	São Tomé and Príncipe	1,160	1,215	1,473
21	Djibouti	1,354	1,369	1,466
22	Zambia	1,027	1,221	1,413
23	Mauritania	1,044	1,140	1,290
24	Lesotho	651	1,156	1,263
25	Cameroon	1,095	1,100	1,230
26	Senegal	984	981	1,075
27	Ivory Coast	1,071	1,042	1,062
28	Comoros	788	817	902
29	Chad	699	837	891
30	Kenya	842	808	850
31	Zimbabwe	303	591	741
32	Benin	765	681	736
33	Mali	641	614	668
34	Burkina Faso	542	609	663
35	Rwanda	512	557	605
36	Mozambique	456	439	582
37	Guinea-Bissau	244	508	575
38	Tanzania	547	547	553
39	The Gambia	434	550	543
40	Togo	408	459	505
41	Guinea	418	477	492
42	Uganda	472	506	477
43	Eritrea	328	397	475
44	Madagascar	432	410	458
45	Central African Republic	446	428	456
46	Niger	375	370	399
47	Sierra Leone	342	325	366
48	Ethiopia	418	350	359
49	Malawi	352	343	350
50	Liberia	210	261	297
51	Burundi	174	245	279
52	Democratic Republic of the Congo	300	185	215

See also

• Economy of Africa

Source

• Source: World Economic Outlook Database for April 2011