Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan jumped 7 places to 127th in 2025, now between Jamaica and Mozambique, on the back of real growth of +11.1%. US$ GDP rose faster still, by +24.6% to US$22.6 billion; the extra 13.5 percentage points were mostly exchange-rate and price effects.

The longer run is just as steep. The economy is 16.5 times its 2000 size of US$1.4 billion, when it ranked 154th.

Services make up 51.2% of output and industry 26.5%, with manufacturing at 13.7% of GDP and agriculture at 8.0%. Inflation was 8.2% and unemployment 3.5%. Government gross debt stands at 39.4% of GDP, according to the IMF.

With a population of 7.3 million, GDP per capita is US$3,081, 146th of 196, and $9,220 international dollars in PPP terms, 139th. The economy is about the size of the Kennewick, WA metro area. The IMF projects GDP of US$38.2 billion by 2030, up 69%, which would lift Kyrgyzstan to 119th. Bishkek is the capital.