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Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Cambodia economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends. Rankings of Cambodia best banks and safest banks are also available.
THE CONTENDER
Cambodia is emerging as a key investment destination—and potential consumer market—for companies focused on Southeast Asia. After more than a decade of 6%-plus growth—with just one hiccup during the global crisis in 2009—this nation of 15 million people has begun attracting serious interest.
USD 6.9 billion (2015)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved January 2017
USD 20.9 billion (2017, estimate)
Intl$ 64.4 billion (2017, estimate)
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| 10.8% | 10.2% | 6.7% | 0.1% | 6% | 7.1% | 7.3% |
| 2013 | 2014* | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* | ||
| 7.4% | 7.1% | 7% | 7% | 6.9% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2017* |
| N/A | 0.02% | 0.03% | 0.04% | 0.05% |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* |
| 3.0% | 3.9% | 1.2% | 3.1% | 2.7% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* |
| 32.1% | 32.3% | 32.5% | 33% | 33.6% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* |
| -2.1% | -1.3% | -1.6% | -2.6% | -2.9% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: B2
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-9.4% (2017 estimate)
61.7% (2015)
0.07% (2015)
0.08% (2015)
Clothing, timber, rubber, rice, fish, tobacco, footwear
Petroleum products, cigarettes, gold, construction materials, machinery, motor vehicles, pharmaceutical products
US 23.1%, UK 8.8%, Germany 8.2%, Japan 7.4%, Canada 6.7%, China 5.1%, Vietnam 5%, Thailand 4.9%, Netherlands 4.1% (2015)
Thailand 28.7%, China 22.2%, Vietnam 16.4%, Hong Kong 6.1%, Singapore 5.7% (2015)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 1,872 million | USD 1,720 million | USD 1,701 million |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 46 million | USD 43 million | USD 47 million |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A
N/A
Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: 131 out of 190 countries (2016)
Subcategories:
Starting a business: 180 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 178 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 120 out of 190 countries
Getting credit: 7 out of 190 countries
Protecting investors: 114 out of 190 countries
Trading across border: 102 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 124 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 183 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 136 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 72 out of 190 countries
89 out of 138 countries
(2016-2017)
Ranking: 112 / Score: 57.9 (Mostly unfree) (2017)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Buddhist (official) 96.9%, Muslim 1.9%, Christian 0.4%, other 0.8% (2008 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2016* | 2021* |
| 7.932 million | 12.223 million | 14.365 million | 15.776 million | 16.995 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2015 |
| 10% | 10% | 19% | 21% |
Total population: 77.2%
Male: 84.5%
Female: 70.5% (2015 est.)
(age 15 and over can read and write)
4.1% (2012)
30.8 (2012)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Political Rights: 6
Civil Liberties: 5 (2017)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 1.64% Mobile 133.00% (2015)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)