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Timor-Leste Economy and Trade

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GDP $1.90B · real growth 7.0% · latest verified annual data

On this page, Timor-Leste's nominal GDP is $1.90B for 2025, and its separately dated real-growth series shows 7.0% for 2025. Per-capita output is listed at $1,341 for 2025; CPI inflation is kept on its own source year at 0.4% for 2025. Each measure keeps its own reference period below, avoiding a false same-year comparison between series released on different schedules.

Nominal GDP
$1.90B
current US$ · 2025
World Bank
GDP per capita
$1,341
current US$ · 2025
Source listed below
Real GDP growth
7.0%
annual % · 2025
Source listed below
Inflation
0.4%
CPI annual % · 2025
Source listed below

Timor-Leste at a Glance

Each measure keeps its actual reference year and definition.

Output trend

Nominal GDP · annual observations · current US$ · World Bank
201520172019202120232025$1.59B$1.90B
2015: $1.59B2016: $1.64B2017: $1.58B2018: $1.56B2019: $2.03B2020: $2.16B2021: $3.63B2022: $3.21B2023: $2.08B2024: $1.87B2025: $1.90B
GDP per capita$1,341
Real growth7.0%
GDP year2025
2025 Inflation
0.4%
CPI annual %
2025 Unemployment
1.6%
labor-market measure
2025 GDP per capita
$1,341
current US$

Macro signals

Available measures are shown with their reported reference periods.

Macro signals

World Bank annual observations
MACRO
Real growth20257.0%
Unemployment20251.6%
Inflation20250.4%
Understand the numbers

What Timor-Leste's economic profile is telling you

Timor-Leste recorded strong real growth of 7.0 percent in the 2025 World Bank series, with nominal GDP of about $1.90 billion. Inflation was 0.4 percent and modeled unemployment 1.6 percent.

Reading the macro data

Nominal GDP measures current-dollar size. Real growth, inflation and unemployment describe different economic conditions and can have different reference years.

Reading the trade data

Merchandise trade covers goods. A balance appears only when exports and imports have a verified matching year and currency basis.

Detailed Economic Data

IndicatorTimor-LesteReference periodStatus
GDPcurrent US$$1.90B2025Actual
GDP per capitacurrent US$$1,3412025Actual
Real GDP growthannual %7.0%2025Actual
InflationCPI annual %0.4%2025Actual
Unemploymentmodeled ILO estimate1.6%2025Estimate
Merchandise balancematched year requiredNot calculatedUnavailableUnavailable

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Timor-Leste's latest GDP?

The verified GDP observation used here is $1.90B for 2025.

What does merchandise trade show for Timor-Leste?

A matched merchandise export and import pair was not independently resolved on this page, so no goods balance is calculated.

Sources & methodology

Sources for the economic indicators and definitions shown above.

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WTO Tariff and Trade Data

Matched-year merchandise trade where independently resolved.