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Ranked: The World’s Fastest Growing Economies in 2025
Published 2 days ago on March 19, 2025
By Marcus

Ranked: The World’s Fastest Growing Economies in 2025
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Key Takeaways
12 of these countries are located in Africa, and six are in Asia
The oil industry plays a major role in many of these economies
Which economies are set to grow the fastest?

Using the latest IMF projections, this infographic ranks the fastest growing economies in 2025, highlighting Africa and Asia as the top regions.

See below for the raw data behind this graphic.

Country Region Real GDP Growth
2025 (%)
🇸🇸 South Sudan Africa 27.2
🇬🇾 Guyana South America 14.4
🇱🇾 Libya Africa 13.7
🇸🇳 Senegal Africa 9.3
🇵🇼 Palau Oceania 8.5
🇸🇩 Sudan Africa 8.3
🇺🇬 Uganda Africa 7.5
🇳🇪 Niger Africa 7.3
🇲🇴 Macao SAR Asia 7.3
🇧🇹 Bhutan Asia 7.2
🇲🇳 Mongolia Asia 7.0
🇿🇲 Zambia Africa 6.6
🇧🇯 Benin Africa 6.5
🇪🇹 Ethiopia Africa 6.5
🇷🇼 Rwanda Africa 6.5
🇮🇳 India Asia 6.5
🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire Africa 6.4
🇵🇭 Philippines Asia 6.1
🇻🇳 Vietnam Asia 6.1
🇩🇯 Djibouti Africa 6.0
World Avg -- 3.2

Oil Powering Economic Growth
The top economies in this ranking are heavily tied to the oil sector, meaning fluctuations in production can have a drastic effect on GDP.

Let’s take a closer look at the top two.

South Sudan (+27.2%)
South Sudan’s GDP has fluctuated up and down in recent years due to an ongoing civil war that has thrown its population into extreme poverty.

As a landlocked country, South Sudan also relies on pipelines that run through its northern neighbor, Sudan, to transport its oil to the Red Sea.

In 2024, South Sudan’s most important pipeline ruptured, putting massive strain on government revenue. Repairing the pipeline is difficult because parts of it lie in active conflict zones.

According to Bloomberg, South Sudan has been seeking alternative routes to export its oil, as well as cash bailouts from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to stay afloat.

Guyana (+14.4%)
Guyana is the only South American country featured in this ranking. It was once one of the poorest countries in the region until major oil deposits were discovered off its coasts in May 2015.

According to a 2023 article from the Associated Press, oil production in Guyana began in December 2019 and has generated over a billion dollars in revenue.

The Guyanese government is using this money to fund a massive infrastructure boom which includes new hospitals, schools, highways, and its first deep-water port.

Analysts expect the country’s total oil revenues will reach $157 billion by 2040.


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Go check well, they ve been on that list for decades but still not "grown" enough.

Where is Nigeria and our master strategist?

gidson12:
Where is Nigeria and our master strategist?

Did you see South Africa,Kenya etc there?
Nigeria,South Africa...are the real things in Africa not Niger,South Sudan...

People would be surprised when we turn things around before Dec

The reforms and policies are just too good

helinues:
People would be surprised when we turn things around before Dec

The reforms and policies are just too good

That's our prayer

Nigeria as a nation is not there but there are states In Nigeria that are experiencing double digit growth rates. I know Abia state, Enugu, Akwa
Ibom , Anambra are on track to double digit growth rate, rivers should have been there if there was no sabotage

Putinofrussia:
Did you see South Africa,Kenya etc there?
Nigeria,South Africa...are the real things in Africa not Niger,South Sudan...

Shame no dey catch una, abi?

South Sudan nah fastest growing economy?

South Sudan people self go just dey laugh at this joke..

Oil money dey really help Guyana

GeneralPula:
South Sudan nah fastest growing economy?

South Sudan people self go just dey laugh at this joke..

Yes, their economy is the fastest growing economy. All thanks to oil

kettykin:
Nigeria as a nation is not there but there are states In Nigeria that are experienced double digit growths. I know Abia state, Enugu, Akwa
Ibom , Anambra are on track to double digit growth rate, rivers should have been there

You're correct

Putinofrussia:
Did you see South Africa,Kenya etc there?
Nigeria,South Africa...are the real things in Africa not Niger,South Sudan...

take away nigeria from that list

GeneralPula:
South Sudan nah fastest growing economy?

South Sudan people self go just dey laugh at this joke..

And you know the funny thing, they will be laughing at the miscreants here pumping propaganda with Tinubu's failures.

This is IPOB list.

Nigeria should be number one on that list because emilokan reforms are greatly working.


Na ipob write am

Did you see South Sudan?
Would this development be possible if it was under Sudan? ... They fought their wars settled agreed on terms all can agree on and decided to move on

Anyone who believe in One Nigeria is an enemy of economic growth

Nigeria can't work... We are too different

No country with 2 near equal majority tribe is ever stable not to talk of 3 ... It's impossible can't work

mrvitalis:
Did you see South Sudan?
Would this development be possible if it was under Sudan? ... They fought their wars settled agreed on terms all can agree on and decided to move on

Anyone who believe in One Nigeria is an enemy of economic growth

Nigeria can't work... We are too different

No country with 2 near equal majority tribe is ever stable not to talk of 3 ... It's impossible can't work

Meanwhile the other Sudan has been in a mind boggling, unexplainable civil war for some years . Karma did not waste time at all on its case like it is wasting on Nigeria's case

See APC supporters trying to cast aspersions on other countries just because APC has proved to be a decade-long failure. Funny people

I thought igbo haters always claim being landlocked is a death sentence how come a landlocked country like south sudan is now topping the charts in economic growth?

kettykin:
Meanwhile the other Sudan has been in a mind boggling, unexplainable civil war for some years . Karma did not waste time at all on its case like it is wasting on Nigeria's case

Same scenario is likely to also play out in the core northern nigeria if nigeria ever disintegrates.

mrvitalis:
Did you see South Sudan?
Would this development be possible if it was under Sudan? ... They fought their wars settled agreed on terms all can agree on and decided to move on

Anyone who believe in One Nigeria is an enemy of economic growth

Nigeria can't work... We are too different

No country with 2 near equal majority tribe is ever stable not to talk of 3 ... It's impossible can't work

I never even knew there's any major economic development in south sudan I thought they were still fighting civil war in that country.

We were here 2015.Nigeria will never be found close anywhere good economic and development indices are being compared courtesy of the dunceheads that mismanaged it over the past 9 years.