East Asia & Pacific · High income
French Polynesia: the economy in numbers
Per person: $22,440. Population: 282,465 (2025).
$6.32B+1.1%real GDP growth, 2024
GDP in 2024, current US dollars: #163 of 204 economies.
GDP per capita
$22,440
2024 · #69 of 204
Population
282K
2025 · #180 of 217
Unemployment
11.7%
2025 · ILO estimate
Life expectancy
84.2 years
2024
GDP
Adjusted for US inflation, in 2025 dollars: $1.81 billion in 1965, $6.5 billion in 2024.
GDP per capita
In 2025 dollars: $18,802 per person in 1965, $23,050 in 2024.
GDP per capita
Real GDP growth
Average over 2015–2024: 1.2% a year. Years of falling GDP since 1966: 18 of 59.
Source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
Population
1960: 83,671 · 2025: 282,465.
Unemployment rate
1991: 11.6% · 2025: 11.7%.
Life expectancy at birth
1960: 59.4 years · 2024: 84.2 years.
Exports of goods and services
1991: 1.3% · 2024: 18.3%.
Data by year
Show the year-by-year table
| Year | GDP | GDP per capita | Real growth | Population | Unemployment | Life expectancy | Exports, % GDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 282K | 11.7% | |||||
| 2024 | $6.32B | $22,440 | 1.1% | 282K | 11.6% | 84.2 | 18.3% |
| 2023 | $6.14B | $21,832 | 2.8% | 281K | 11.6% | 84.1 | 24.1% |
| 2022 | $5.62B | $20,054 | 2.9% | 280K | 11.8% | 83.9 | 21.8% |
| 2021 | $5.99B | $21,426 | 3.4% | 280K | 12.6% | 79.6 | 13.4% |
| 2020 | $5.57B | $19,966 | −10.6% | 279K | 13.0% | 82.5 | 9.5% |
| 2019 | $6.02B | $21,583 | 2.7% | 279K | 11.6% | 83.2 | 20.6% |
| 2018 | $6.14B | $21,926 | 1.8% | 280K | 11.6% | 83.0 | 21.0% |
| 2017 | $5.83B | $20,827 | 4.3% | 280K | 11.6% | 82.8 | 19.6% |
| 2016 | $5.5B | $19,690 | 2.3% | 279K | 11.7% | 82.6 | 19.6% |
| 2015 | $5.33B | $19,167 | 1.8% | 278K | 11.8% | 82.3 | 19.6% |
| 2014 | $6.15B | $22,259 | 0.6% | 276K | 11.9% | 82.2 | 19.7% |
| 2013 | $6.03B | $21,956 | 0.4% | 275K | 12.0% | 81.9 | 18.5% |
| 2012 | $5.69B | $20,847 | −0.9% | 273K | 12.1% | 81.7 | 19.3% |
| 2011 | $6.2B | $22,832 | −3.0% | 272K | 12.3% | 81.4 | 18.2% |
| 2010 | $6.09B | $22,495 | −2.5% | 271K | 12.1% | 81.1 | 16.4% |
| 2009 | $6.58B | $24,434 | −4.2% | 269K | 12.0% | 80.9 | 16.7% |
| 2008 | $7.14B | $26,592 | 0.0% | 268K | 11.8% | 80.6 | 18.9% |
| 2007 | $6.63B | $24,888 | 1.7% | 266K | 11.7% | 80.3 | 20.4% |
| 2006 | $5.88B | $22,331 | 0.9% | 263K | 11.8% | 80.1 | 20.3% |
| 2005 | $5.71B | $21,984 | 0.3% | 260K | 11.7% | 80.0 | 20.5% |
| 2004 | $5.56B | $21,764 | 1.0% | 256K | 11.7% | 79.8 | |
| 2003 | $4.93B | $19,583 | 2.1% | 252K | 11.8% | 79.7 | |
| 2002 | $3.97B | $16,004 | 0.8% | 248K | 11.7% | 79.5 | |
| 2001 | $3.57B | $14,641 | −0.3% | 244K | 11.7% | 79.3 | |
| 2000 | $3.6B | $14,978 | 3.2% | 240K | 11.6% | 79.0 | 4.7% |
| 1999 | $3.91B | $16,533 | 1.9% | 237K | 11.7% | 78.6 | 4.9% |
| 1998 | $3.9B | $16,760 | 1.7% | 233K | 11.8% | 77.8 | 4.0% |
| 1997 | $3.76B | $16,423 | −0.1% | 229K | 11.9% | 77.4 | 4.1% |
| 1996 | $4.17B | $18,476 | −0.7% | 225K | 11.9% | 76.8 | 4.0% |
| 1995 | $4.19B | $18,850 | −0.4% | 222K | 11.9% | 76.2 | 2.8% |
| 1994 | $3.68B | $16,806 | −1.7% | 219K | 12.0% | 75.7 | 3.5% |
| 1993 | $3.54B | $16,470 | −1.3% | 215K | 11.8% | 75.2 | 2.4% |
| 1992 | $3.71B | $17,554 | −1.5% | 212K | 11.7% | 74.7 | 1.4% |
| 1991 | $3.41B | $16,415 | 3.7% | 208K | 11.6% | 74.3 | 1.3% |
| 1990 | $3.32B | $16,293 | 0.1% | 204K | 73.9 | ||
| 1989 | $2.73B | $13,683 | 2.2% | 200K | 73.5 | ||
| 1988 | $2.72B | $13,953 | −3.6% | 195K | 73.1 | ||
| 1987 | $2.68B | $14,061 | 1.3% | 190K | 72.4 | ||
| 1986 | $2.21B | $11,914 | 13.5% | 186K | 72.0 | ||
| 1985 | $1.45B | $8,002 | −1.2% | 181K | 71.2 | ||
| 1984 | $1.33B | $7,511 | 2.4% | 176K | 70.6 | ||
| 1983 | $1.28B | $7,477 | 2.4% | 172K | 69.7 | ||
| 1982 | $1.24B | $7,416 | 1.7% | 167K | 68.9 | ||
| 1981 | $1.23B | $7,645 | 2.6% | 162K | 68.2 | ||
| 1980 | $1.32B | $8,439 | 0.5% | 156K | 67.4 | ||
| 1979 | $1.22B | $8,016 | 3.9% | 152K | 66.6 | ||
| 1978 | $1.01B | $6,849 | 9.9% | 147K | 65.9 | ||
| 1977 | $793M | $5,574 | 2.1% | 142K | 65.3 | ||
| 1976 | $732M | $5,302 | 8.2% | 138K | 64.8 | ||
| 1975 | $690M | $5,150 | −4.9% | 134K | 64.2 | ||
| 1974 | $555M | $4,273 | 18.0% | 130K | 63.8 | ||
| 1973 | $431M | $3,425 | 7.8% | 126K | 63.4 | ||
| 1972 | $326M | $2,678 | −4.7% | 122K | 63.1 | ||
| 1971 | $297M | $2,517 | 12.0% | 118K | 62.8 | ||
| 1970 | $254M | $2,228 | 1.6% | 114K | 62.5 | ||
| 1969 | $243M | $2,206 | −2.7% | 110K | 62.2 | ||
| 1968 | $260M | $2,441 | 14.9% | 106K | 61.9 | ||
| 1967 | $221M | $2,151 | −4.7% | 103K | 61.6 | ||
| 1966 | $216M | $2,171 | 9.6% | 99.3K | 61.4 | ||
| 1965 | $177M | $1,839 | 96K | 61.1 | |||
| 1964 | 92.8K | 60.8 | |||||
| 1963 | 89.7K | 60.5 | |||||
| 1962 | 87.3K | 60.2 | |||||
| 1961 | 85.4K | 59.9 | |||||
| 1960 | 83.7K | 59.4 |
e: IMF estimate; f: IMF forecast.
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Rankings
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Data and methods
- GDP: gross domestic product in current US dollars, converted from the local currency at market exchange rates (World Bank); not adjusted for inflation.
- Purchasing power parity (PPP): GDP per person in international dollars, which buy the same basket of goods and services in every country. It compares living standards across countries in the same year; it is not adjusted for inflation over time.
- In 2025 dollars: the charts can remove US inflation (US consumer price index, annual average) so that dollar amounts from different years compare in today's money. Exchange rate swings still show.
- Growth and inflation: World Bank data (calendar years). Years the World Bank does not cover yet, and the estimates and forecasts, come from the IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026): its forecasts start in 2026, and the years after a country's last actual year are IMF estimates.
- Government debt: gross debt of the general government (central, state and local government and social security funds) as a percentage of GDP, IMF. The World Bank's central government debt is narrower and covers fewer countries.
- Stock market capitalization: the end-of-year value of domestic companies listed on the country's exchanges (World Federation of Exchanges via the World Bank; before 2016, Standard & Poor's), as a percentage of GDP: the “Buffett indicator”. Investment funds are excluded, and so are companies listed only abroad; companies from elsewhere that list on an exchange count for its country (Hong Kong lists many mainland Chinese companies).
- Unemployment: ILO modeled estimates (share of the labor force); comparable across countries, but they may differ from national figures.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)