Venezuela Economy and Trade
GDP $99.66B · real growth 1.6% · latest verified annual data
The current profile places Venezuela's nominal GDP at $99.66B in 2025 and shows real GDP growth of 1.6% for 2025. Alongside output, the profile shows GDP per capita of $3,495 (2025) and CPI inflation of 475.0% (2025). Each measure keeps its own reference period below, avoiding a false same-year comparison between series released on different schedules.
Venezuela at a Glance
Each measure keeps its actual reference year and definition.
Output trend
Macro signals
Available measures are shown with their reported reference periods.
Macro signals
What Venezuela's economic profile is telling you
Venezuela's current World Bank series reports nominal GDP of about $99.66 billion and real growth of 1.6 percent for 2025, with modeled unemployment of 5.3 percent. Official Central Bank of Venezuela data put full-year consumer-price inflation at about 475.0 percent in 2025. This national source is used because the World Bank CPI series for Venezuela remains stale.
Reading the macro data
Nominal GDP measures current-dollar size. Real growth, inflation and unemployment describe different economic conditions and can have different reference years.
Reading the trade data
Merchandise trade covers goods. A balance appears only when exports and imports have a verified matching year and currency basis.
Detailed Economic Data
| Indicator | Venezuela | Reference period | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDPcurrent US$ | $99.66B | 2025 | Actual |
| GDP per capitacurrent US$ | $3,495 | 2025 | Actual |
| Real GDP growthannual % | 1.6% | 2025 | Actual |
| InflationCPI annual % | 475.0% | 2025 | Actual |
| Unemploymentmodeled ILO estimate | 5.3% | 2025 | Estimate |
| Merchandise balancematched year required | Not calculated | Unavailable | Unavailable |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Venezuela's latest GDP?
The verified GDP observation used here is $99.66B for 2025.
What does merchandise trade show for Venezuela?
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.
View sources used for this page
Core macroeconomic indicators with explicit reference years.
Official data: GDP · GDP per capita · Real growth · Inflation · Unemployment
Matched-year merchandise trade where independently resolved.
Official data: WTO economy profiles
Official 2025 consumer-price inflation, used because the World Bank CPI series for Venezuela is stale.
Official data: Central Bank of Venezuela