Africa vs Libya: Gross public investment
Gross public investment over time
- Africa
- Libya
How they compare
Libya currently reports 22.0% against 5.6% in Africa, a difference of 16.4%.
That makes Libya's figure about 4.0 times Africa's.
Across all 7 years both countries report, Libya has been ahead every year.
Africa ranks 6th and Libya ranks 3rd of 6 groups.
Libya has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross public investment, Africa or Libya?
- Libya, at 22.0% against 5.6% in Africa as of 2008.
- What is the difference in gross public investment between Africa and Libya?
- 16.4%, with Libya ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Africa and Libya?
- 7 years are reported by both, from 2002 to 2008.
- How do Africa and Libya rank globally for gross public investment?
- Africa ranks 6th and Libya ranks 3rd of 6 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files, published as Gross public investment (% of GDP). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Gross public investment (see definition below) as a percentage of GDP (%) . Public sectors’ gross domestic fixed investment (gross fixed capital formation) comprises all additions to the stocks of fixed assets (purchases and own-account capital formation), less any sales of second-hand and scrapped fixed assets measured at constant prices, done by government units and non-financial public enterprises. Most outlays by government on military equipment are excluded. According to 1993 SNA are outlays on weapons and equipment with no alternative civil use treated as intermediate consumption, and part of governments consumption expenditure.