World Bank country overview records a 29.4 per cent collapse in Sudan's real GDP in 2023 and extreme poverty rising to 59 per cent

17 October 2026

The World Bank's Sudan country overview, as it stands today, says real GDP contracted by an estimated 29.4 per cent in 2023 and by a further 14 per cent in 2024, with growth estimated to have rebounded by 3.1 per cent in 2025. It says inflation began declining in April 2025 but remains high, and puts it at 68 per cent in December 2024 year on year. Extreme poverty is estimated to have increased from 48 per cent in 2023 to 59 per cent in 2025. Government revenues collapsed from 10 per cent of GDP in 2022 to below 5 per cent in 2024 and 2025. The overview also records that 21.2 million people, 41 per cent of the population, face high levels of food insecurity.