List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita

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Map of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita. Source: IMF (2005)

This article includes a list of countries of the world sorted by their Gross Domestic Product (nominal) per capita, the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year, divided by the average 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 a great deal 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.

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 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.

The table below includes data for the year 2005 for all 180 members of the International Monetary Fund, for which information is available. Data are in United States dollars.

Rank	Country	GDP per capita
1	Luxembourg	75,130
2	Norway	64,268
3	Iceland	53,472
4	Switzerland	50,524
5	Ireland	48,351
6	Denmark	48,000
7	Qatar	47,519
8	United States	42,101
9	Sweden	39,658
10	Netherlands	38,333
11	Austria	37,528
12	Finland	37,014
13	United Kingdom	36,599
14	Japan	35,787
15	Belgium	35,750
16	Canada	35,064
17	Australia	34,714
18	Germany	33,922
19	France	33,734
20	Italy	30,450
21	United Arab Emirates	28,582
22	Spain	27,226
23	Singapore	26,835
24	New Zealand	26,441
25	Kuwait	26,020
26	Hong Kong, PRC	25,444
27	Cyprus	20,214
28	Greece	20,082
29	The Bahamas	18,526
30	Israel	18,266
31	Brunei	17,632
32	Portugal	17,439
33	Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands	17,270
34	Slovenia	17,066
35	South Korea	16,422
36	Bahrain	16,153
37	Republic of China (Taiwan)	15,120
38	Malta	13,737
39	Saudi Arabia	13,316
40	Oman	12,495
41	Trinidad and Tobago	12,329
42	Czech Republic	12,106
43	Barbados	11,478
44	Hungary	11,217
45	Saint Kitts and Nevis	10,897
46	Antigua and Barbuda	10,522
47	Estonia	9,727
48	Slovakia	8,647
49	Seychelles	8,373
50	Croatia	8,345
51	Poland	7,875
52	Lithuania	7,511
53	Mexico	7,298
54	Latvia	7,193
55	Chile	7,040
56	Libya	6,699
57	Gabon	6,538
58	Lebanon	6,033
59	Equatorial Guinea	5,934
60	Botswana	5,829
61	Russia	5,369
62	South Africa	5,100
63	Turkey	5,062
64	Mauritius	5,058
65	Malaysia	5,040
66	Venezuela	5,026
67	Argentina	4,802
68	Panama	4,722
69	Uruguay	4,656
70	Saint Lucia	4,624
71	Costa Rica	4,573
72	Romania	4,539
73	Grenada	4,512
74	Brazil	4,316
75	Belize	3,986
76	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3,955
77	Dominica	3,944
78	Kazakhstan	3,717
79	Jamaica	3,583
80	Turkmenistan	3,516
81	Bulgaria	3,459
82	Fiji	3,349
83	Dominican Republic	3,235
84	Serbia and Montenegro	3,139
85	Algeria	3,086
86	Belarus	3,031
87	Tunisia	2,978
88	Namibia	2,870
89	Iran	2,825
90	Peru	2,812
91	Colombia	2,742
92	Suriname	2,637
93	Thailand	2,577
94	Ecuador	2,502
95	El Salvador	2,453
96	Maldives	2,441
97	Republic of Macedonia	2,431
98	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,405
99	Albania	2,348
100	Swaziland	2,323
101	Jordan	2,219
102	Tonga	2,142
103	Cape Verde	2,087
104	Guatemala	1,995
105	Angola	1,873
106	Samoa	1,832
107	Iraq	1,7831
108	Republic of the Congo	1,751
109	Ukraine	1,727
110	Morocco	1,725
111	People's Republic of China	1,703
112	Vanuatu	1,530
113	Azerbaijan	1,493
114	Georgia	1,493
115	Syria	1,418
116	Egypt	1,316
117	Indonesia	1,259
118	Sri Lanka	1,199
119	Paraguay	1,165
120	Philippines	1,159
121	Honduras	1,145
122	Armenia	1,137
123	Bhutan	1,059
124	Bolivia	1,058
125	Guyana	1,034
126	Cameroon	952
127	Djibouti	885
128	Nicaragua	867
129	Côte d'Ivoire	850
130	Moldova	825
131	Sudan	783
132	Pakistan	769
133	Mongolia	736
134	Senegal	715
135	India	714
136	Nigeria	678
137	Kiribati	672
138	Papua New Guinea	666
139	Mauritania	650
140	Comoros	613
141	Vietnam	612
142	Zambia	609
143	Chad	601
144	Solomon Islands	598
145	Benin	595
146	Yemen	586
147	Kenya	574
148	Lesotho	537
149	Ghana	512
150	Haiti	503
151	Kyrgyzstan	473
152	Laos	463
153	Uzbekistan	445
154	Burkina Faso	438
155	São Tomé and Príncipe	430
156	Mali	421
157	Bangladesh	403
158	Zimbabwe	383
159	Timor-Leste	378
160	Togo	378
161	Cambodia	375
162	Tajikistan	364
163	Guinea	355
164	Mozambique	346
165	Central African Republic	336
166	Uganda	326
167	Tanzania	324
168	Nepal	322
169	The Gambia	304
170	Niger	278
171	Madagascar	263
172	Rwanda	242
173	Afghanistan
174	Sierra Leone	219
175	Eritrea	206
176	Guinea-Bissau	181
177	Malawi	161
178	Ethiopia	153
179	Democratic Republic of the Congo	119
180	Burundi	107
181	Myanmar	97

Source

• International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database, April 2006 [link].
• Afghanistan: International Monetary Fund, Public Information Notice (PIN) No. 05/9 - January 27, 2005 [link].
• ¹Iraq: [CIA World Factbook].

Note

See also

• List of countries by GDP (nominal) - GDP with currencies converted at market exchange rates
• List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates per inhabitant
• List of countries by GDP (PPP) - GDP calculated at purchasing power parity exchange rates

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