São Tomé & Príncipe
GDP per person in São Tomé & Príncipe
GDP per person in São Tomé & Príncipe: $985 in 1970 and $1,360 in 2025, by World Bank estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $1,360
- Since 1970
- +$375
- Rank, 2025
- 158 of 186
- counting from the highest
- World, 2025
- $12,130
US dollars at 2015 prices · World Bank
What the numbers say
- The highest was $1,455 in 1979, the lowest $940 in 1993.
- Older estimates from Maddison reach back to 1950: 1,278 international dollars at 2011 prices.
The long run, in international dollars at 2011 prices
Maddison Project Database, version 2023 by Bolt, Jutta and Jan Luiten van Zanden (2024), “Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update”, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1–41. DOI: 10.1111/joes.12618
Every year
US dollars at 2015 prices · World Bank
| Year | São Tomé & Príncipe | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,360 | $12,130 |
| 2024 | $1,373 | $11,890 |
| 2023 | $1,381 | $11,670 |
| 2022 | $1,403 | $11,450 |
| 2021 | $1,428 | $11,170 |
| 2020 | $1,431 | $10,580 |
| 2019 | $1,421 | $11,000 |
| 2018 | $1,414 | $10,820 |
| 2017 | $1,376 | $10,590 |
| 2016 | $1,343 | $10,360 |
| 2015 | $1,298 | $10,190 |
| 2014 | $1,301 | $10,000 |
| 2013 | $1,264 | $9,811 |
| 2012 | $1,226 | $9,654 |
| 2011 | $1,215 | $9,515 |
| 2010 | $1,216 | $9,322 |
| 2009 | $1,226 | $9,028 |
| 2008 | $1,214 | $9,266 |
| 2007 | $1,171 | $9,191 |
| 2006 | $1,157 | $8,913 |
| 2005 | $1,089 | $8,639 |
| 2004 | $1,047 | $8,409 |
| 2003 | $1,037 | $8,151 |
| 2002 | $982 | $8,011 |
| 2001 | $973 | $7,932 |
| 2000 | $960 | $7,880 |
| 1999 | $966 | $7,639 |
| 1998 | $954 | $7,479 |
| 1997 | $943 | $7,382 |
| 1996 | $947 | $7,203 |
| 1995 | $947 | $7,058 |
| 1994 | $944 | $6,944 |
| 1993 | $940 | $6,819 |
| 1992 | $947 | $6,801 |
| 1991 | $958 | $6,773 |
| 1990 | $968 | $6,804 |
| 1989 | $1,014 | $6,741 |
| 1988 | $1,008 | $6,620 |
| 1987 | $1,015 | $6,446 |
| 1986 | $1,071 | $6,326 |
| 1985 | $1,164 | $6,233 |
| 1984 | $1,087 | $6,120 |
| 1983 | $1,180 | $5,947 |
| 1982 | $1,250 | $5,903 |
| 1981 | $1,235 | $5,986 |
| 1980 | $1,406 | $5,980 |
| 1979 | $1,455 | $5,978 |
| 1978 | $1,283 | $5,843 |
| 1977 | $1,281 | $5,710 |
| 1976 | $1,066 | $5,591 |
| 1975 | $1,076 | $5,410 |
| 1974 | $1,045 | $5,467 |
| 1973 | $1,011 | $5,465 |
| 1972 | $1,017 | $5,236 |
| 1971 | $1,016 | $5,061 |
| 1970 | $985 | $4,964 |
| 1969 | – | $4,885 |
| 1968 | – | $4,707 |
| 1967 | – | $4,535 |
| 1966 | – | $4,461 |
| 1965 | – | $4,321 |
| 1964 | – | $4,176 |
| 1963 | – | $3,999 |
| 1962 | – | $3,889 |
| 1961 | – | $3,759 |
| 1960 | – | $3,667 |
Good to know
- The value of everything produced in the country in a year, divided by its people, in 2015 US dollars so that years compare.
- Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.
- Ranks count the 186 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
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São Tomé & Príncipe in numbers
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