List of African countries by GDP – Nigeria is the Biggest Economy, followed by SA and Egypt

“Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. Countries in Africa are sorted according to data from the International Monetary Fund. The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results can vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country’s currency.^[1] Such fluctuations may change a country’s ranking from one year to the next, even though they often make little or no difference to the standard of living of its population.

Rank	Country	Nominal GDP (billions US$)	Nominal GDP per capita (US$)
1	Nigeria	480.48	2,272.84
2	Egypt	396.33	3,974.75
3	South Africa	329.60	6,102.17
4	Algeria	163.81	3,638.33
5	Morocco	126.04	3,470.80
6	Kenya	109.49	2,198.59
7	Ethiopia	92.76	939.51
8	Ghana	75.49	2,413.10
9	Angola	70.34	2,200.68
10	Tanzania	69.24	1,159.19
11	Ivory Coast	68.84	2,489.10
12	Democratic Republic of the Congo	54.83	593.56
13	Cameroon	44.81	1,645.81
14	Uganda	43.24	1,018.44
15	Tunisia	42.73	3,555.59
16	Sudan	35.92	789.45
17	Senegal	27.58	1,602.90
18	Libya	27.30	4,068.61
19	Zimbabwe	25.79	1,664.76
20	Zambia	21.70	1,115.27
21	Burkina Faso	19.93	926.20
22	Mali	19.56	966.14
23	Gabon	18.29	8,569.22
24	Benin	18.07	1,446.83
25	Botswana	17.61	7,349.88
26	Guinea	16.72	1,168.18
27	Mozambique	15.83	429.27
28	Niger	15.64	622.23
29	Madagascar	14.10	498.68
30	Republic of Congo	12.74	2,655.72
31	Equatorial Guinea	12.53	8,625.76
32	Chad	12.35	729.84
33	Namibia	12.21	4,693.46
34	Malawi	12.15	565.80
35	Mauritius	11.00	8,681.61
36	Rwanda	10.40	802.26
37	Mauritania	9.16	2,161.28
38	Togo	8.49	1,000.44
39	Somalia	5.42	350.36
40	Eswatini	4.52	3,965.43
41	Sierra Leone	4.41	541.06
42	Djibouti	3.65	3,654.5
43	Liberia	3.38	703.41
44	South Sudan	3.26	230.13
45	Burundi	3.19	261.05
46	Central African Republic	2.59	525.91
47	Lesotho	2.48	1,187.51
48	Eritrea	2.25	625.97
49	The Gambia	2.04	746.33
50	Cape Verde	1.89	3,346.55
51	Guinea-Bissau	1.59	858.04
52	Seychelles	1.29	13,140.37
53	Comoros	1.28	1,390.06
54	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.53	2,392.89
—	Total	2,692.59	2,469.66