Maldives vs Niger: Economic Indicators Comparison

Niger with a GDP of $9.3B ranked the 146th largest economy in the world, while Maldives ranked 155th with $5.3B. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Niger and Maldives ranked 26th vs 22nd and 194th vs 72nd, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Maldives	Niger
GDP	$5.3B	$9.3B
GDP growth, 1 year	7%	5.2%
GDP growth, 5-years average	6.3%	5.4%
Population	436k	21.5M
GDP per capita	$10k	$414
GDP per capita growth	2.89%	2.5%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	10.39	216.34
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.67	0.39
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$22k	$1.2k
GNI, Atlas method	$4.8B	$8.7B
GNI per capita	$9.3k	$390
GNI, PPP adjusted	$7.3B	$23.3B
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$14k	$1k

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Maldives	Niger
Income Tax Rate	0%	35%
Corporate Tax Rate	0%	30%
Inflation, consumer prices	1.5%	3%
Inflation, GDP deflator	5.3%	2.6%
Unemployment	6.1%	0.3%
Economic Freedom Index	56.5	54.7
Personal Freedom Index	7.2	6.67
Human Freedom Index	7.1	6
Property Rights Index	48.5	45.6
Judical Effectiveness Index	31.7	42.6
Business Freedom Index	78.7	55.4
Fiscal Health Index	42.9	44.7
Labor Freedom Index	70.6	47.9
Investment Freedom Index	35	55
Financial Freedom Index	30	40
Trade Freedom Index	61	61.2
Monetary Freedom Index	77	74.8
Government Spending Index	67.9	79
Tax Burden Index	95.8	76.7
Government Integrity Index	39.2	33.4
Corruption Perceptions Index	31	34
Life expectancy at birth, years	78.3	61.6
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	2.3	4.6
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	0.9	26.2
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	0.8	4.4
International tourism, number of arrivals	1.5M	157k

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Maldives	Niger
Central government debt, % of GDP	61.5%	55.1%
External debt stocks, % of GNI	48%	36.1%
External debt stocks	$2.3B	$3.3B
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	36.4%	N/A
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	9.2%	8.5%
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	N/A	5%
Gross savings, % of GDP	N/A	20.2%
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	N/A	37.1%
Total reserves including gold	$722.1M	N/A
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$538.5M	$2B

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Maldives	Niger
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	69.1%	15.7%
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	77.2%	33%
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$1.4B	-$1.3B
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	25.7%	14.6%
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$72.6M	$881.8M
Personal remittances received	$4.2M	$296.7M
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	12.9%	15.5%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	5.6%	39.2%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$3.5M	$2M
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$5.6M	$6.2k
Expense, % of GDP	25.1%	10.2%
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	32.7%	26.5%