Saudi Arabia vs Western Africa: Gross Domestic Product — Value US$, 2015 prices
Gross Domestic Product — Value US$, 2015 prices over time
- Saudi Arabia
- Western Africa
How they compare
Western Africa currently reports 884,444 million USD against 790,147 million USD in Saudi Arabia, a difference of 94,297 million USD.
That makes Western Africa's figure about 1.1 times Saudi Arabia's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Saudi Arabia ahead.
Saudi Arabia ranks 20th and Western Africa ranks 23rd of 203 countries.
Across the 6 decades both report, Saudi Arabia averaged higher in 4 and Western Africa in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Saudi Arabia | Western Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 236,640 million USD | 170,231 million USD | 66,408 million USD | Saudi Arabia |
| 1980s | 272,054 million USD | 185,185 million USD | 86,869 million USD | Saudi Arabia |
| 1990s | 313,200 million USD | 234,112 million USD | 79,089 million USD | Saudi Arabia |
| 2000s | 420,858 million USD | 373,526 million USD | 47,332 million USD | Saudi Arabia |
| 2010s | 641,321 million USD | 657,863 million USD | 16,542 million USD | Western Africa |
| 2020s | 753,649 million USD | 818,699 million USD | 65,050 million USD | Western Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross domestic product — value us$, 2015 prices, Saudi Arabia or Western Africa?
- Western Africa, at 884,444 million USD against 790,147 million USD in Saudi Arabia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in gross domestic product — value us$, 2015 prices between Saudi Arabia and Western Africa?
- 94,297 million USD, with Western Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Saudi Arabia and Western Africa?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
- How do Saudi Arabia and Western Africa rank globally for gross domestic product — value us$, 2015 prices?
- Saudi Arabia ranks 20th and Western Africa ranks 23rd of 203 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Gross Domestic Product — Value US$, 2015 prices. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).