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Economic conditions during a year do not establish what caused them. These are annual historical series, not figures available on election day. Browse every annual value and indicator definition.
Sources & definitions
World Bank — World Development Indicators. Downloaded 2026-09-17. Latest available revisions; annual reference years follow each source. These series cover 1960–2025, with employment and unemployment from 1986.
- Real GDP growth
Annual growth, constant prices. Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG · Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) · Source updated 2026-07-13 - GDP per capita growth
Annual real growth per person; not household income. Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG · Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) · Source updated 2026-07-13 - Unemployment
Share of the labour force; national estimate. Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment. Definitions of labor force and unemployment differ by country.
SL.UEM.TOTL.NE.ZS · Labour Force Statistics database (LFS), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: June 22, 2026 · Source updated 2026-07-13 - Employment
Share of population aged 15+; national estimate. Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed.
SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.NE.ZS · Labour Force Statistics database (LFS), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: June 22, 2026 · Source updated 2026-07-13 - CPI inflation
Annual change in consumer prices. Inflation as measured by the consumer price index reflects the annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services that may be fixed or changed at specified intervals, such as yearly.
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) · Source updated 2026-07-13
Employment uses the population aged 15+; unemployment uses the labour force. Their rates do not sum to 100%. GDP per capita is not personal income. CPI inflation measures price changes, not the price level.
Licence & attribution · World Bank, World Development Indicators; original providers are listed for each series. Annual values are rounded to two decimals; the comparison view subtracts each series’ 1996 rate.
Open economic data table
| Year | Real GDP growth | GDP per capita growth | Unemployment | Employment | CPI inflation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2.77% | 1.53% | 3.85% | 65.55% | 3.37% |
| 2007 | 3.06% | 2.11% | 3.61% | 65.90% | 2.38% |
| 2008 · Election | -1.03% | -1.86% | 4.04% | 65.51% | 3.96% |
| 2009 | -0.04% | -1.03% | 5.87% | 63.92% | 2.12% |
| 2010 | 1.47% | 0.35% | 6.21% | 63.43% | 2.30% |
| 2011 · Election | 2.14% | 1.37% | 6.04% | 63.79% | 4.03% |
| 2012 | 2.30% | 1.74% | 6.49% | 63.20% | 1.06% |
| 2013 | 2.56% | 1.78% | 5.84% | 63.81% | 1.13% |
| 2014 · Election | 3.82% | 2.11% | 5.43% | 64.96% | 1.23% |
| 2015 | 3.73% | 1.64% | 5.41% | 65.06% | 0.29% |
| 2016 | 3.74% | 1.44% | 5.15% | 66.37% | 0.65% |
| 2017 · Election | 3.32% | 1.18% | 4.74% | 67.56% | 1.85% |
| 2018 | 3.32% | 1.49% | 4.33% | 67.83% | 1.60% |
| 2019 | 2.32% | 0.89% | 4.11% | 67.65% | 1.62% |
| 2020 · Election | -0.24% | -2.25% | 4.60% | 67.02% | 1.71% |
| 2021 | 4.30% | 4.05% | 3.80% | 68.11% | 3.94% |
| 2022 | 3.35% | 3.40% | 3.32% | 68.97% | 7.17% |
| 2023 · Election | 1.81% | -0.50% | 3.77% | 69.37% | 5.73% |
| 2024 | -0.87% | -2.56% | 4.76% | 67.87% | 2.92% |
| 2025 | 0.46% | -0.19% | 5.26% | 66.80% | 2.84% |
| 2026 · Election | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available |
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