Bosnia and Herzegovina

GDP · 2025

$32.6 bn

111th largest of 214

The size of the economy — everything produced in a year. The headline number every other figure argues with.

GDP growth · 2025

2.1%

143rd fastest-growing of 214

How fast output is expanding, inflation-adjusted. Growth without jobs or wages is where the story usually hides.

GDP per capita · 2025

$10,382

103rd highest of 214

Output per person — the rough proxy for average living standards, and an average that hides a lot.

Inflation (CPI) · 2023

6.1%

40th highest of 193

How fast consumer prices rise. What it understates for poorer households is half the story.

Unemployment · 2025

11.0%

33rd highest of 187

The share of the labour force seeking work without finding it — and it counts precarious work as 'employed'.

Population · 2025

3.1 mn

135th largest of 217

The denominator of everything per-capita.

Exports · 2025

41.0%

83rd highest of 193

How much of the economy is sold to the world — openness, measured on the way out.

Imports · 2025

54.1%

70th highest of 193

How much of demand is met from abroad — openness, measured on the way in.

FDI, net inflows · 2025

2.2%

95th highest of 202

Long-term foreign investment into real assets — a confidence signal that is hard to fake and slow to reverse.

Total reserves · 2024

$9.4 bn

85th largest of 179

The central bank's war chest for defending the currency and paying for imports.

Current account · 2025

-3.1%

120th highest of 200

The broadest external balance — trade plus income and remittances. Persistent deficits must be financed.

Government debt · 2024

39.7%

72nd highest of 109

What the state owes relative to the economy carrying it. Reported patchily — gaps here are common.

Exchange rate · 2025

1.7

150th highest of 213

How many units of local currency a dollar buys — a running vote of confidence.

Gini index · 2021

30.3

135th most unequal of 171

Inequality in one number: 0 is perfect equality, 100 is one person holding everything. Surveyed rarely.

Life expectancy · 2024

78.0

69th highest of 217

The single most honest summary of whether an economy serves its people.

Extreme poverty · 2021

0.3%

136th highest of 171

The share of people living below the international extreme-poverty line — the floor beneath every other economic statistic.