List of African countries by GDP (nominal)

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

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GDP (Nominal)

This is a list of African countries sorted by their nominal gross domestic product (GDP), the marketvalue 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. 2009, 2010, and some of 2008 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 2008 (billion USD)
 2009 (billion USD)
 2010 (billion USD)
World 61,268.094 57,920.270 62,909.274
Africa 1,561.807 1,476.179 1,730.072
1  South Africa 275.596 283.977 357.259
2  Egypt 162.435 188.608 218.466
3  Nigeria 207.116 168.846 216.803
4  Algeria 170.228 139.763 160.270
5  Morocco 88.879 91.374 103.482
6  Angola 84.178 75.508 85.312
7  Libya 88.888 60.239 74.232
8  Sudan 58.028 55.802 68.441
9  Tunisia 44.878 43.523 44.290
10  Kenya 30.031 29.394 32.163
11  Ghana 28.528 25.988 31.084
12  Ethiopia 26.642 32.249 29.717
13  Côte d'Ivoire 23.508 22.909 22.823
14  Tanzania 20.668 22.159 22.671
15  Cameroon 23.732 21.820 22.478
16  Uganda 14.440 15.804 17.011
17  Zambia 14.654 12.805 16.192
18  Equatorial Guinea 18.525 11.175 14.485
19  Botswana 13.461 10.808 14.030
20  Democratic Republic of the Congo 11.595 11.108 13.125
21  Gabon 14.535 10.936 13.056
22  Senegal 13.350 12.610 12.877
23  Namibia 8.835 9.039 11.865
24  Republic of the Congo 10.774 8.632 11.530
25  Mozambique 9.897 9.654 9.893
26  Mauritius 8.738 9.156 9.729
27  Mali 8.774 8.757 9.268
28  Burkina Faso 8.116 7.780 8.781
29  Madagascar 9.463 8.974 8.345
30  Chad 8.400 6.974 7.848
31  Zimbabwe 4.416 5.836 7.474
32  Benin 6.712 6.401 6.649
33  Rwanda 4.459 5.011 5.622
34  Niger 5.382 5.323 5.577
35  Malawi 4.268 4.909 5.053
36  Guinea 4.517 4.436 4.633
37  Mauritania 3.161 3.241 3.799
38  Swaziland 2.840 2.929 3.553
39  Togo 2.890 2.771 3.194
40  Lesotho 1.618 1.624 2.127
41  Eritrea 1.479 1.694 2.117
42  Central African Republic 1.997 1.983 2.018
43  Sierra Leone 1.953 2.064 1.905
44  Cape Verde 1.744 1.755 1.651
45  Burundi 1.097 1.410 1.489
46  Djibouti 0.982 1.089 1.140
47  The Gambia 1.035 0.983 1.067
48  Liberia 0.850 0.868 0.974
49  Seychelles 0.822 0.656 0.936
50  Guinea-Bissau 0.461 0.438 0.837
51  Comoros 0.532 0.525 0.534
52  São Tomé and Príncipe 0.175 0.189 0.196

GDP (Nominal) per capita

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

Rank Country GDP - per capita (USD) 2008 Estimation of 2009
1  Equatorial Guinea 14,941 8,759
2  Libya 14,479 9,570
3  Gabon 9,998 7,414
4  Seychelles 9,640 7,683
5  Botswana 7,554 5,995
6  Mauritius 6,872 7,146
7  South Africa 5,685 5,635
8  Angola 5,054 4,027
9  Algeria 4,588 3,816
10  Namibia 4,278 4,341
11  Tunisia 3,995 3,794
12  Cape Verde 3,464 3,419
13  Republic of the Congo 2,952 2,298
14  Morocco 2,827 2,847
15  Swaziland 2,778 2,854
16  Egypt 2,162 2,450
17  Sudan 1,522 1,388
18  Nigeria 1,401 1,089
19  Djibouti 1,252 1,354
20  Zambia 1,248 1,027
21  Cameroon 1,224 1,095
22  Côte d'Ivoire 1,132 1,071
23  São Tomé and Príncipe 1,094 1,160
24  Senegal 1,066 984
25  Mauritania 1,042 1,044
26  Chad 863 699
27  Kenya 838 842
28  Benin 828 765
29  Comoros 816 788
30  Ghana 739 639
31  Lesotho 660 651
32  Mali 657 641
33  Burkina Faso 578 542
34  Tanzania 520 547
35  The Gambia 497 434
36  Mozambique 477 456
37  Madagascar 468 432
38  Rwanda 465 512
39  Central African Republic 459 446
40  Uganda 455 472
41  Guinea 439 418
42  Togo 436 408
43  Niger 391 375
44  Ethiopia 333 418
45  Sierra Leone 332 342
46  Malawi 313 352
47  Eritrea 295 328
48  Zimbabwe 268 303
49  Guinea-Bissau 264 244
50  Liberia 216 210
51  Democratic Republic of the Congo 185 171
52  Burundi 138 174

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