Country profile · Sub-Saharan Africa · LIC
🇱🇷 Liberia
Low income. Capital Monrovia. Lower-third GDP/cap (LIC · MID) - 37 series with wider survey lag risk.
- 5.6 million
- Population
- $4.8 billion
- GDP
- $851
- GDP / capita
- 62.3 years
- Life expectancy
Lower-third GDP/cap · MID
Liberia ranks 171st of 217 by total GDP and 202nd for life expectancy - a low income economy in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- #171
- World GDP rank (of 217)
- $851
- GDP per capita
- #202
- Life-expectancy rank
- #117
- Population rank
Liberia lands in the lower third of GDP/cap (#202 of 214) - LIC · MID - so national averages need rural/urban caution.
Liberia vs all countries by total GDP
Where this economy's World Bank total GDP sits among every country with a positive observation (inventory signal, not a virtue ranking)
$4,779,300,900 171st of 214 higher than 43 of 214 countries
Countries banded by World Bank total GDP (current US$)
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Source World Bank, GDP (current US$) · 2026-08-14
Liberia on the global income map
Liberia (LBR) sits in the lower GDP/cap third - plotted with largest peers; bubble area = population.
- Liberia: GDP per capita $851 (2024), life expectancy 62.3 years (2024), low income.
- India: GDP per capita $2,695 (2024), life expectancy 72.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- China: GDP per capita $13,303 (2024), life expectancy 78.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United States: GDP per capita $84,534 (2024), life expectancy 78.9 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Indonesia: GDP per capita $4,925 (2024), life expectancy 71.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Pakistan: GDP per capita $1,479 (2024), life expectancy 67.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Nigeria: GDP per capita $1,084 (2024), life expectancy 54.6 years (2024), low income.
- Brazil: GDP per capita $10,311 (2024), life expectancy 76.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Bangladesh: GDP per capita $2,593 (2024), life expectancy 74.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Russian Federation: GDP per capita $14,889 (2024), life expectancy 73.4 years (2024), high income.
- Ethiopia: GDP per capita $1,134 (2024), life expectancy 67.6 years (2024), low income.
- Mexico: GDP per capita $14,186 (2024), life expectancy 75.3 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Japan: GDP per capita $32,487 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Egypt, Arab Rep.: GDP per capita $3,338 (2024), life expectancy 71.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Philippines: GDP per capita $3,985 (2024), life expectancy 69.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Congo, Dem. Rep.: GDP per capita $693 (2024), life expectancy 62.1 years (2024), low income.
- Viet Nam: GDP per capita $4,717 (2024), life expectancy 74.7 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Iran, Islamic Rep.: GDP per capita $5,190 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Turkiye: GDP per capita $15,893 (2024), life expectancy 77.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Germany: GDP per capita $56,104 (2024), life expectancy 80.8 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Thailand: GDP per capita $7,387 (2024), life expectancy 76.6 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United Kingdom: GDP per capita $53,246 (2024), life expectancy 81.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Tanzania: GDP per capita $1,193 (2024), life expectancy 67.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- France: GDP per capita $46,103 (2024), life expectancy 83.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- South Africa: GDP per capita $6,267 (2024), life expectancy 66.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Italy: GDP per capita $40,385 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Kenya: GDP per capita $2,133 (2024), life expectancy 63.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Myanmar: GDP per capita $1,359 (2024), life expectancy 67.1 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Colombia: GDP per capita $7,951 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income, OECD member.
- Korea, Rep.: GDP per capita $36,239 (2024), life expectancy 83.6 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Sudan: GDP per capita $985 (2024), life expectancy 66.5 years (2024), low income.
Overview
Liberia has a population of 5.6 million, making it the 117th-most populous country out of 217 tracked in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Its economy totals $4.8 billion - ranked 171st globally by total GDP. GDP per capita stands at $851, placing it in the Low income category.
Life expectancy at birth is 62.3 years (ranked 202nd globally), reflecting overall health outcomes as measured by the World Bank.
The capital is Monrovia.
👥 Demographics
💰 Economy
🏥 Health
📚 Education
🌍 Environment
🏗️ Infrastructure
⚖️ Social
🌐 Livability Score
One composite verdict from 4 of 5 World Bank series (life expectancy, under-5 mortality, electricity access, clean-water access, homicide rate), each benchmarked against every country tracking that series. A missing series never silently drags the score down: its weight redistributes across the series Liberia does report.
All indicators for Liberia
37 latest observations from World Bank WDI, WHO GHO, and ILO ILOSTAT (vintage through 2026-08-14). Values match the topic cards above; this table is the machine-readable export view analysts expect on a country profile.
🫀 Disease Burden
Malaria still registers on Liberia (63.5 per 100,000 vs fleet midpoint 0.3). Profiles where that cell is zero drop the card entirely. Summary metrics use 2021 data; cause-specific cards show their own observation year.
Non-communicable Diseases
Communicable & Maternal
Sources: WHO Global Health Observatory. NCD mortality rate: 2021. Rates are age-standardized per 100,000 population. Premature NCD risk covers cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease.
Compare Liberia with near GDP/cap peers
Side-by-side pages for the closest ABS GDP/cap neighbours - not a full-roster dropdown.
Read with Liberia
Nearest GDP/cap peers and LE poles for Liberia (LIC · MID), replacing the old fixed guide and region clone strip.
LIC MID
Gambia, The · LIC
Gambia, The GDP/cap $871 is higher by $20 than Liberia; LE stamp MID vs MID.
Sierra Leone · LIC
Sierra Leone GDP/cap $807 is lower by $45 than Liberia; LE stamp MID vs MID.
Niger · LIC
Niger GDP/cap $730 is lower by $122 than Liberia; LE stamp MID vs MID.
Chad · LIC
Chad GDP/cap $981 is higher by $129 than Liberia; LE stamp SHORT vs MID.
Sub-Saharan Africa WDI roster
Liberia stamps LIC · MID inside Sub-Saharan Africa - open the region roster after the ABS peers.
GDP/cap leaderboard (#202)
Liberia ranks #202 of 214 on NY.GDP.PCAP.CD under the LIC Atlas band.
What the data says about Liberia
Statistical infrastructure in low-income economies like Liberia typically relies more heavily on household surveys and modeled estimates than on continuous administrative registration, so several figures on this profile carry a wider margin of uncertainty and a longer lag between the reference year and today than a high-income country's data would. With a small population, a single survey round or a change in methodology can shift Liberia's reported figures noticeably from one release to the next, independent of any real change on the ground. Where a field on this page reads "N/A," it usually means the relevant international agency has not yet published a recent estimate for Liberia, not that the underlying condition doesn't exist.
Liberia lands in the lower third of GDP/cap (#202 of 214) - LIC · MID - so national averages need rural/urban caution.
Liberia's 5.6 million people and $4.8 billion GDP (171st) yield $851 per person in the lower GDP/cap third. Life expectancy 62.3 years (202nd, MID) and survey lag both matter when reading single-year cells. 37 official points sit in the tables.
Nearest ABS GDP/cap peer: Gambia, The at $871 (Δ $20). Open that profile or the GDP/cap leaderboard before treating any single year as destiny.
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Source: World Bank Open Data, Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, Source: ILO ILOSTAT. World Bank and ILO data licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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