List of Countries By Gdp (Nominal) Per Capita Information

This data set includes three lists of countries of the world sorted by their gross domestic product per capita at nominal values, the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year, converted at market exchange rates to current U.S. dollars, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year.

The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results can vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency. Such fluctuations may change a country's ranking from one year to the next, even though they often make little or no difference to the standard of living of its population. Therefore these figures should be used with caution. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living;^[2][3] although this can be problematic because GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income. See Standard of living and GDP.

Comparisons of national wealth are also frequently made on the basis of purchasing power parity (PPP), to adjust for differences in the cost of living in different countries. (See List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita.) PPP largely removes the exchange rate problem, but has its own drawbacks; it does not reflect the value of economic output in international trade, and it also requires more estimation than GDP per capita. On the whole, PPP per capita figures are more narrowly spread than nominal GDP per capita figures.

Great care should be taken when using either set of figures to compare the wealth of two countries. Often people who wish to promote or denigrate a country will use the figure that suits their case best and ignore the other one, which may be substantially different, but a valid comparison of two economies should take both rankings into account, as well as utilising other economic data to put an economy in context.

Non-sovereign entities (the world, the EU, and some dependent territories) are included in the list because they appear in the sources. These economies are not ranked in the charts here, but are listed in sequence by GDP for comparison. They are marked in italics.

• The first table includes data for the year 2011 from the International Monetary Fund, including IMF members (plus Hong Kong) for which information is available.
• The second table includes data (mostly) for the year 2010 from the World Bank.
• The third table includes data from The World Factbook, provided by the US Central Intelligence Agency. Data between countries are not comparable as it may refer to different years. Figures are mostly estimates for 2010.

All data is in United States dollars.

Notes and references

1. ^ Based on the average of the IMF and World Bank figures. If no number was available for a country from IMF or World Bank, CIA figures were used.
2. ^ O'Sullivan, Arthur.
3. ^ French President seeks alternatives to GDP, The Guardian 14-09-2009. European Parliament, Policy Department Economic and Scientific Policy: Beyond GDP StudyPDF (1.47 MB)
4. ^ Data refer to the year 2011. World Economic Outlook Database-September 2011, International Monetary Fund. Accessed on January 6, 2012.
5. ^ Data refer mostly to the year 2010. World Development Indicators database, World Bank. Accessed on December 21, 2011.
6. ^ GDP (official exchange rate) & Population, The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency, accessed on 30 September 2011. Population data obtained from Total Midyear Population, U.S. Census Bureau, International Data Base, accessed on 30 September 2011. European Union population obtained from European Union, The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency, accessed on 30 September 2011. Falkland Islands population data obtained from The World Factbook 2002 archive. Niue population data obtained from The World Factbook 2003 archive. Note: Per capita values were obtained by dividing the GDP (official exchange rate) data by the Population data. The figures were then rounded to the nearest hundred in typical Factbook fashion.
7. ^ Nominal 2011 GDP for the European Union & 2011 population for the European Union, World Economic Outlook Database, September 2011, International Monetary Fund. Accessed on January 06, 2012.
8. ^ The IMF is using a 2008 population estimate based on a 2001 census whose validity has been called into question. A 2003 U.S. State Department report on Equatorial Guinea stated that "although the 2002 (sic) census estimated the population at 1,015,000, credible estimates put the number at closer to 500,000. The opposition claimed that the Government inflated the census in anticipation of the December presidential election. (...) Opposition leaders charged earlier in the year that census results showing a twofold population increase were flawed and that numbers were inflated to perpetuate election fraud." [1]
9. ^ Population for Kosovo and Tuvalu was not available at the IMF database. To calculate the World GDP per capital, population for these two countries was obtained from U.S. Census Bureau, International Data Base, accessed on January 06, 2012.
10. ^ ^{a b} Population obtained from U.S. Census Bureau, International Data Base, accessed on September 26, 2011.

See also

• List of OECD countries by GDP per capita

External links

• Chart of GDP per capita at current prices by Google, World Bank data
• World Map and Chart of GDP per capita at current prices by lebanese-economy-forum, World Bank data

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• Lists by economic indicators
• Lists of countries by per capita values
• Gross Domestic Product

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