List of countries by informal GDP (nominal)

This article is a list of countries by their informal GDP.

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GDP or estimate (million US$) by country

Country/territory [a]	World economics % informal economy (2023) [1]	United Nations GDP (2023) [2]	Total	Population (2023) [3]	Informal GDP per capita (2023) USD$
Afghanistan	74.6	16,417	28,664	41,454,761	691
Albania	28.6	22,978	29,550	2,811,655	10,510
Algeria	30.1	247,626	322,161	46,164,219	6,979
Angola	41.2	90,552	127,859	36,749,906	3,479
Argentina	30.0	646,075	839,898	45,538,401	18,444
Armenia	41.8	24,219	34,343	2,943,393	11,668
Australia	12.2	1,775,628	1,992,255	26,451,124	75,318
Austria	7.7	511,685	551,085	9,130,429	60,357
Azerbaijan	47.7	72,356	106,870	10,318,207	10,357
Bahamas	27.2	14,338	18,238	399,441	45,659
Bahrain	16.4	44,662	51,987	1,569,666	33,120
Bangladesh	27.6	422,431	539,022	171,466,990	3,144
Belarus	34.8	71,857	96,863	9,115,680	10,626
Belgium	19.0	644,783	767,292	11,712,893	65,508
Benin	52.7	19,673	30,041	14,111,035	2,129
Bhutan	24.8	3,019	3,768	786,385	4,792
Bolivia	51.6	45,135	68,425	12,244,160	5,588
Bosnia and Herzegovina	33.1	27,515	36,622	3,185,073	11,498
Botswana	28.2	19,396	24,866	2,480,245	10,026
Brazil	33.2	2,191,132	2,918,588	211,140,729	13,823
Brunei	31.1	15,128	19,833	458,949	43,214
Bulgaria	30.9	102,397	134,038	6,795,803	19,724
Burkina Faso	31.8	20,325	26,788	23,025,776	1,163
Burundi	36.1	3,960	5,390	13,689,450	394
Cambodia	51.4	42,824	64,836	17,423,881	3,721
Cameroon	29.6	49,279	63,866	28,372,687	2,251
Canada	11.6	2,142,471	2,390,998	39,299,105	60,841
Cape Verde	32.0	2,591	3,420	522,331	6,548
Central African Republic	48.0	2,555	3,781	5,152,421	734
Chad	41.6	17,643	24,982	19,319,064	1,293
Chile	21.5	335,533	407,673	19,658,835	20,737
China	12.7	17,794,782	20,054,719	1,422,584,933	14,097
Colombia	30.3	363,540	473,693	52,321,153	9,054
Comoros	40.2	1,448	2,030	850,387	2,387
Democratic Republic of the Congo	45.1	69,338	100,609	105,789,732	951
Republic of the Congo	45.5	14,167	20,613	6,182,885	3,334
Costa Rica	27.8	86,498	110,544	5,105,526	21,652
Croatia	31.0	84,391	110,552	3,896,024	28,376
Cyprus	25.1	33,887	42,393	1,344,976	31,520
Czech Republic	15.8	343,208	397,435	10,809,716	36,766
Denmark	12.1	407,092	456,350	5,948,137	76,722
Dominican Republic	29.6	121,444	157,391	11,331,266	13,890
Ecuador	33.5	118,845	158,658	17,980,083	8,824
Egypt	29.6	331,590	429,741	114,535,772	3,752
El Salvador	37.1	34,016	46,636	6,309,624	7,391
Estonia	23.3	41,291	50,912	1,367,196	37,238
Eswatini	38.9	4,574	6,353	1,230,506	5,163
Ethiopia	33.2	159,746	212,782	128,691,692	1,653
Finland	13.8	295,532	336,315	5,601,186	60,044
France	16.0	3,051,832	3,540,125	66,438,822	53,284
Gabon	48.7	20,056	29,823	2,484,789	12,002
Gambia	43.7	2,401	3,450	2,697,846	1,279
Georgia	51.3	30,536	46,201	3,807,492	12,134
Germany	10.4	4,525,704	4,996,377	84,548,231	59,095
Ghana	37.7	76,370	105,161	33,787,914	3,112
Greece	22.7	243,498	298,772	10,242,909	29,169
Guatemala	47.0	104,451	153,543	18,124,838	8,471
Guinea	34.2	23,006	30,874	14,405,468	2,143
Guinea-Bissau	33.7	1,841	2,461	2,153,339	1,143
Guyana	27.4	16,683	21,254	826,353	25,720
Haiti	50.4	19,841	29,841	11,637,399	2,564
Honduras	43.6	34,401	49,400	10,644,851	4,641
Hong Kong	14.7	380,812	436,791	7,442,735	58,687
Hungary	23.9	212,657	263,482	9,686,464	27,201
Iceland	13.1	31,325	35,429	387,558	91,416
India	27.6	3,575,778	4,562,693	1,438,069,596	3,173
Indonesia	23.6	1,371,171	1,694,767	281,190,067	6,027
Ireland	11.2	551,395	613,151	5,196,630	117,990
Israel	17.8	513,611	605,034	9,256,314	65,364
Italy	22.0	2,300,941	2,807,148	59,499,453	47,179
Ivory Coast	36.4	78,789	107,468	31,165,654	3,448
Jamaica	31.6	19,423	25,561	2,839,786	9,001
Japan	10.5	4,204,495	4,645,967	124,370,947	37,356
Jordan	15.4	50,814	58,639	11,439,214	5,126
Kazakhstan	36.4	264,293	360,496	20,330,104	17,732
Kenya	35.2	108,039	146,069	55,339,003	2,640
Kuwait	18.5	163,705	193,990	4,838,782	40,091
Kyrgyzstan	31.6	13,988	18,408	7,073,516	2,602
Laos	23.4	15,008	18,520	7,664,993	2,416
Latvia	21.3	42,248	51,247	1,882,396	27,224
Lebanon	30.3	27,464	35,786	5,773,493	6,198
Lesotho	31.1	2,118	2,777	2,311,472	1,201
Liberia	40.9	5,039	7,100	5,493,031	1,293
Libya	33.2	44,030	58,648	7,305,659	8,028
Lithuania	21.0	79,790	96,546	2,854,099	33,827
Luxembourg	9.4	85,755	166,365	665,098	250,136
Madagascar	40.1	15,870	22,234	31,195,933	713
Malawi	32.6	12,627	16,743	21,104,483	793
Malaysia	27.1	399,649	507,954	35,126,298	14,461
Mali	31.5	20,662	27,171	23,769,128	1,143
Malta	29.8	22,212	28,831	532,956	54,096
Mauritania	28.7	10,652	13,709	5,022,442	2,730
Mauritius	22.3	14,397	17,608	1,273,588	13,826
Mexico	31.6	1,793,799	2,360,639	129,739,759	18,195
Moldova	37.8	16,542	22,795	3,067,070	7,432
Mongolia	17.4	19,872	23,330	3,431,933	6,798
Morocco	28.5	144,438	185,603	37,712,505	4,922
Mozambique	32.7	20,954	27,806	33,635,160	827
Myanmar	54.1	62,084	95,671	54,133,798	1,767
Namibia	27.2	12,351	15,710	2,963,095	5,302
Nepal	29.4	40,484	52,386	29,694,615	1,764
Netherlands	9.5	1,154,361	1,264,025	18,092,525	69,864
New Zealand	10.4	252,176	278,402	5,172,836	53,820
Nicaragua	52.8	17,829	27,243	6,823,613	3,992
Niger	41.7	16,819	23,833	26,159,867	911
Nigeria	58.5	374,984	594,350	227,882,945	2,608
North Macedonia	36.5	15,764	21,518	1,831,802	11,747
Norway	13.1	485,311	548,887	5,519,167	99,451
Oman	17.6	105,896	124,534	5,049,269	24,664
Pakistan	33.2	299,864	399,419	247,504,496	1,614
Panama	50.1	83,382	125,156	4,458,759	28,070
Papua New Guinea	33.0	31,020	41,257	10,389,635	3,971
Paraguay	48.1	42,955	63,616	6,844,146	9,295
Peru	47.5	267,603	394,714	33,845,617	11,662
Philippines	34.8	437,146	589,273	114,891,199	5,129
Poland	22.0	809,201	987,225	38,762,844	25,468
Portugal	17.9	289,114	340,865	10,430,738	32,679
Qatar	16.4	213,003	247,935	2,979,082	83,225
Romania	27.3	350,776	446,538	19,118,479	23,356
Russia	26.5	2,008,419	2,540,650	145,440,501	17,469
Rwanda	29.3	14,097	18,227	13,954,472	1,306
Saudi Arabia	21.6	1,067,583	1,298,181	33,264,292	39,026
Senegal	37.5	30,408	41,811	18,077,574	2,313
Serbia	32.6	75,187	99,698	6,773,201	14,719
Sierra Leone	38.1	6,412	8,855	8,460,512	1,047
Singapore	10.8	501,428	555,582	5,789,090	95,971
Slovakia	14.0	132,908	151,515	5,518,055	27,458
Slovenia	22.2	69,148	84,499	2,118,396	39,888
South Africa	25.3	377,782	47,3361	63,212,384	7,488
South Korea	23.2	1,839,058	2,265,719	51,748,739	43,783
Spain	20.4	1,620,091	1,950,590	47,911,580	40,712
Sri Lanka	36.7	84,364	115,326	22,971,617	5,020
Sudan	37.8	34,021	46,881	50,042,791	937
Suriname	33.6	3,759	5,022	628,886	7,986
Sweden	12.9	584,960	660,420	10,551,494	62,590
Switzerland	7.0	894,425	1,046,477	8,870,561	117,972
Tajikistan	40.0	12,061	16,885	10,389,799	1,625
Tanzania	45.9	78,353	114,317	66,617,607	1,716
Thailand	43.6	514,945	739,461	71,702,435	10,313
Togo	31.9	9,278	12,238	9,304,338	1,315
Trinidad and Tobago	29.8	25,489	33,085	1,502,933	22,014
Tunisia	35.1	48,541	65,579	12,200,431	5,375
Turkey	30.0	1,118,253	1,453,729	87,270,502	16,658
Turkmenistan	34.9	59,887	80,788	7,364,438	10,970
Uganda	32.6	51,023	67,656	48,656,602	1,390
Ukraine	44.0	178,757	257,410	37,732,836	6,822
United Arab Emirates	23.6	514,130	635,465	10,642,081	59,712
United Kingdom	11.0	3,380,855	3,752,749	68,682,963	54,639
United States	7.4	27,720,700	29,772,032	343,477,335	86,678
Uruguay	41.6	77,236	109,366	3,388,081	32,280
Uzbekistan	28.9	90,889	117,156	35,652,307	3,286
Vietnam	21.8	429,717	523,395	100,352,192	5,216
Yemen	27.0	8,758	11,123	39,390,799	282
Zambia	40.9	27,578	38,857	20,723,965	1,875
Zimbabwe	65.3	30,368	50,198	16,340,822	3,072

Notes

1. Some countries are omitted due to a lack of data.

References

1. "Informal / Shadow Economy Size | by Country | 2025 | Data".
2. "United Nations Statistics Division - National Accounts". unstats.un.org. Archived from the original on 13 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
3. "Countries Ordered by Population in 2023". PopulationPyramid.net.