List of African countries by GDP (nominal)

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. Countries in Africa are sorted according to data from the International Monetary Fund. The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results can vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency.[1] Such fluctuations may change a country's ranking from one year to the next, even though they often make little or no difference to the standard of living of its population.[2]

Some countries may have citizens that are on average wealthy. These countries/regions could appear in this list as having a small GDP. This would be because the country/region listed has a small population, and therefore small total economy; the GDP is calculated as the population times market value of the goods and services produced per person in the country.[3][4]

These figures should therefore be used with caution.

Comparisons of national wealth are also frequently made on the basis of purchasing power parity (PPP), to adjust for differences in the cost of living in different countries. PPP largely removes the exchange rate problem, but has its own drawbacks; it does not reflect the value of economic output in international trade, and it also requires more estimation than nominal GDP.[5] On the whole, PPP per capita figures are more narrowly spread than nominal GDP per capita figures.[6]

Map of Africa by 2008 nominal GDP (billions USD):
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Map of Africa by 2017 nominal GDP per capita (USD)

The 2019 estimates are as follows:[7][8][9][10]

GDP (Nominal) of Africa 2019

  Nigeria (18.13%)
  South Africa (15.13%)
  Egypt (12.21%)
  Algeria (7.49%)
  Morocco (4.94%)
  Kenya (4.04%)
  Angola (3.76%)
  Ethiopia (3.71%)
  Ghana (2.78%)
  Tanzania (2.78%)
  Other Countries (27.81%)
2019 Rank Country Nominal GDP
($ billions)		 Nominal GDP

per capita (US$)

 Notes
- ECOWAS 668.601 1,708.05
1  Nigeria 444.916 2,233.45
2  South Africa 371.298 6,331.46
3  Egypt 299.589 3,019.72
- EAC 220.783 1,322.01
4  Algeria 183.687 4,229.78
5  Morocco 121.350 3,409.95
6  Kenya 109.246 2,086.54
7  Ethiopia 105.000 1000.10
8  Angola 92.191 3,060.02
9  Ghana 68.258 2,262.57
10  Tanzania 61.032 1,172.18
11  Democratic Republic of the Congo 48.458 495.08
12 Côte d'Ivoire 45.252 1,722.26
13  Libya 44.964 6,835.62
14  Cameroon 39.219 1,537.61
15  Tunisia 36.204 3,072.51
16  Uganda 33.569 828.06[11]
17  Sudan 31.468 728.06
18  Senegal 25.32 1,510.20
19  Zambia 24.615 1,343.57
20  Zimbabwe 22.29 1,423.49
21  Botswana 19.651 8,263.22
22  Mali 17.833 933.88
23  Gabon 16.709 8,031.44
24  Mozambique 15.372 493.37
25  Burkina Faso 14.882 744.24
26  Mauritius 14.812 11,693.55
27  Namibia 13.961 5,675.11
28  Madagascar 12.734 470.67
29  Guinea 12.623 926.33
30  Equatorial Guinea 12.432 9,140.32
31  Chad 11.372 888.29
32  Benin 11.184 954.10
33 Republic of Congo 11.162 2,443.75
34  Rwanda 10.211 829.97
35  Niger 9.724 487.68
36  Somalia 7.903
37  Eritrea 7.718 1,253.06
38  Malawi 7.436 366.532
39  Togo 5.592 682.40
40  Mauritania 5.569 1,191.51
41  Eswatini 4.662 4,205.67
42  Sierra Leone 3.998 516.76
43  Burundi 3.573 309.87
44  Liberia 3.221 703.67
45  South Sudan 3.151 235.52
46  Lesotho 2.811 1,372.51
47  Djibouti 2.392 2,218.05
48  Central African Republic 2.285 440.99
49  Cape Verde 2.042 3,650.11
50  The Gambia 1.741 778.08
51  Seychelles 1.654 17,154.74
52  Guinea-Bissau 1.538 865.74
53  Comoros 0.726 832.87
54  São Tomé and Príncipe 0.477 2,147.16
-- Total 2,453.844

See also

References
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  11. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics ("UBOS")www.ubos.org
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