This is a list of the countries

Country

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

 in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 in order of Nominal Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product refers to the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living....

 (GDP).

GDP (Nominal)

This is a list of African countries sorted by their nominal gross domestic product

Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product refers to the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living....

(GDP), the marketvalue of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. The GDP dollar values presented here are calculated at market or government official exchange rate

Exchange rate

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s by the International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

 (IMF) staff. 2009, 2010, and some of 2008 values are estimates. GDP of Africa is 2.5% of the total GDP of the world in 2008, and to be estimated as 2.3% of the world GDP in 2009.

Rank	Country	2008 (billion USD)	2009 (billion USD)	2010 (billion USD)
	World	61,268.094	57,920.270	62,909.274
	Africa	1,561.807	1,476.179	1,730.072
1		275.596	283.977	357.259
2		162.435	188.608	218.466
3		207.116	168.846	216.803
4		170.228	139.763	160.270
5		88.879	91.374	103.482
6		84.178	75.508	85.312
7		88.888	60.239	74.232
8		58.028	55.802	68.441
9		44.878	43.523	44.290
10		30.031	29.394	32.163
11		28.528	25.988	31.084
12		26.642	32.249	29.717
13		23.508	22.909	22.823
14		20.668	22.159	22.671
15		23.732	21.820	22.478
16		14.440	15.804	17.011
17		14.654	12.805	16.192
18		18.525	11.175	14.485
19		13.461	10.808	14.030
20		11.595	11.108	13.125
21		14.535	10.936	13.056
22		13.350	12.610	12.877
23		8.835	9.039	11.865
24		10.774	8.632	11.530
25		9.897	9.654	9.893
26		8.738	9.156	9.729
27		8.774	8.757	9.268
28		8.116	7.780	8.781
29		9.463	8.974	8.345
30		8.400	6.974	7.848
31		4.416	5.836	7.474
32		6.712	6.401	6.649
33		4.459	5.011	5.622
34		5.382	5.323	5.577
35		4.268	4.909	5.053
36		4.517	4.436	4.633
37		3.161	3.241	3.799
38		2.840	2.929	3.553
39		2.890	2.771	3.194
40		1.618	1.624	2.127
41		1.479	1.694	2.117
42		1.997	1.983	2.018
43		1.953	2.064	1.905
44		1.744	1.755	1.651
45		1.097	1.410	1.489
46		0.982	1.089	1.140
47	The Gambia	1.035	0.983	1.067
48		0.850	0.868	0.974
49		0.822	0.656	0.936
50		0.461	0.438	0.837
51		0.532	0.525	0.534
52		0.175	0.189	0.196

GDP (Nominal) per capita

Countries by GDP per person, converted to US dollar through estimated IMF exchange rates.

Rank	Country	GDP - per capita (USD) 2008	Estimation of 2009
1		14,941	8,759
2		14,479	9,570
3		9,998	7,414
4		9,640	7,683
5		7,554	5,995
6		6,872	7,146
7		5,685	5,635
8		5,054	4,027
9		4,588	3,816
10		4,278	4,341
11		3,995	3,794
12		3,464	3,419
13		2,952	2,298
14		2,827	2,847
15		2,778	2,854
16		2,162	2,450
17		1,522	1,388
18		1,401	1,089
19		1,252	1,354
20		1,248	1,027
21		1,224	1,095
22		1,132	1,071
23		1,094	1,160
24		1,066	984
25		1,042	1,044
26		863	699
27		838	842
28		828	765
29		816	788
30		739	639
31		660	651
32		657	641
33		578	542
34		520	547
35	The Gambia	497	434
36		477	456
37		468	432
38		465	512
39		459	446
40		455	472
41		439	418
42		436	408
43		391	375
44		333	418
45		332	342
46		313	352
47		295	328
48		268	303
49		264	244
50		216	210
51		185	171
52		138	174

Source

• Source: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=64&pr.y=7&sy=2008&ey=2010&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=512%2C941%2C914%2C446%2C612%2C666%2C614%2C668%2C311%2C672%2C213%2C946%2C911%2C137%2C193%2C962%2C122%2C674%2C912%2C676%2C313%2C548%2C419%2C556%2C513%2C678%2C316%2C181%2C913%2C682%2C124%2C684%2C339%2C273%2C638%2C921%2C514%2C948%2C218%2C943%2C963%2C686%2C616%2C688%2C223%2C518%2C516%2C728%2C918%2C558%2C748%2C138%2C618%2C196%2C522%2C278%2C622%2C692%2C156%2C694%2C624%2C142%2C626%2C449%2C628%2C564%2C228%2C283%2C924%2C853%2C233%2C288%2C632%2C293%2C636%2C566%2C634%2C964%2C238%2C182%2C662%2C453%2C960%2C968%2C423%2C922%2C935%2C714%2C128%2C862%2C611%2C716%2C321%2C456%2C243%2C722%2C248%2C942%2C469%2C718%2C253%2C724%2C642%2C576%2C643%2C936%2C939%2C961%2C644%2C813%2C819%2C199%2C172%2C184%2C132%2C524%2C646%2C361%2C648%2C362%2C915%2C364%2C134%2C732%2C652%2C366%2C174%2C734%2C328%2C144%2C258%2C146%2C656%2C463%2C654%2C528%2C336%2C923%2C263%2C738%2C268%2C578%2C532%2C537%2C944%2C742%2C176%2C866%2C534%2C369%2C536%2C744%2C429%2C186%2C433%2C925%2C178%2C869%2C436%2C746%2C136%2C926%2C343%2C466%2C158%2C112%2C439%2C111%2C916%2C298%2C664%2C927%2C826%2C846%2C542%2C299%2C967%2C582%2C443%2C474%2C917%2C754%2C544%2C698&s=NGDPD%2CPPPGDP&grp=0&a=World Economic Outlook Database for April 2011]