Countries in Africa by GNI per capita

Countries in Africa by GNI per capita, World Bank, 2025

#	Country	US$ per person	Region
1	Seychelles	$19,200	Eastern Africa
2	Mauritius	$14,040	Eastern Africa
3	Gabon	$8,090	Middle Africa
4	Botswana	$7,390	Southern Africa
5	Libya	$7,250	Northern Africa
6	South Africa	$6,270	Southern Africa
7	Equatorial Guinea	$5,890	Middle Africa
8	Algeria	$5,850	Northern Africa
9	Cabo Verde	$5,590	Western Africa
10	Morocco	$4,360	Northern Africa
11	Namibia	$4,340	Southern Africa
12	Tunisia	$4,300	Northern Africa
13	Djibouti	$3,960	Eastern Africa
14	São Tomé and Principe	$3,800	Middle Africa
15	Eswatini	$3,730	Southern Africa
16	Egypt	$3,260	Northern Africa
17	Angola	$2,860	Middle Africa
18	Côte d'Ivoire	$2,780	Western Africa
19	Zimbabwe	$2,660	Eastern Africa
20	Ghana	$2,630	Western Africa
21	Congo	$2,280	Middle Africa
22	Mauritania	$2,210	Western Africa
23	Kenya	$2,200	Eastern Africa
24	Comoros	$1,950	Eastern Africa
25	Cameroon	$1,860	Middle Africa
26	Senegal	$1,780	Western Africa
27	Guinea	$1,730	Western Africa
28	Benin	$1,600	Western Africa
29	Nigeria	$1,360	Western Africa
30	Togo	$1,350	Western Africa
31	Lesotho	$1,280	Southern Africa
32	Tanzania	$1,270	Eastern Africa
33	Zambia	$1,200	Eastern Africa
34	Rwanda	$1,150	Eastern Africa
=35	Mali	$1,120	Western Africa
=35	Uganda	$1,120	Eastern Africa
37	Ethiopia	$1,110	Eastern Africa
38	Guinea-Bissau	$1,090	Western Africa
39	Burkina Faso	$980	Western Africa
40	Chad	$970	Middle Africa
41	Gambia	$930	Western Africa
42	Sudan	$900	Northern Africa
=43	Liberia	$830	Western Africa
=43	Sierra Leone	$830	Western Africa
45	Niger	$750	Western Africa
46	DR Congo	$720	Middle Africa
47	Somalia	$640	Eastern Africa
48	Malawi	$600	Eastern Africa
49	Mozambique	$570	Eastern Africa
=50	Central African Republic	$560	Middle Africa
=50	Madagascar	$560	Eastern Africa
52	Burundi	$240	Eastern Africa

No World Bank figure for 2 countries: Eritrea, South Sudan.

Questions

Which country in Africa has the highest GNI per capita?

The Seychelles has the highest GNI per capita in Africa: $19,200 a person (2025). Next come Mauritius ($14,040 a person) and Gabon ($8,090 a person).

Which country in Africa has the lowest GNI per capita?

Burundi, with $240 a person (2025).

What is the typical GNI per capita of a country in Africa?

The median of the 52 countries in Africa is $1,755 a person: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Gross national income per person in US dollars, converted with the World Bank’s Atlas method, which averages exchange rates over three years so a currency swing does not reorder the table. Source: World Bank, 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.