List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita

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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. Data for the Eurozone countries are calculated from the Euro at an exchange rate of 1.245755 US$/€ (the exchange rate for 1 February 2007 is 1.3020 US$/€).^[1]

Rank	Country	GDP ($) per capita
1	Luxembourg	80,288
2	Norway	64,193
3	Iceland	52,764
4	Switzerland	50,532
5	Ireland	48,604
6	Denmark	47,984
7	Qatar	43,110
8	United States of America	42,000
9	Sweden	39,694
10	Netherlands	38,618
11	Finland	37,504
12	Austria	37,117
13	United Kingdom	37,023
14	Japan	35,757
15	Belgium	35,712
16	Canada	35,133
17	Australia	34,740
18	France	33,918
19	Germany	33,854
20	Italy	30,200
21	United Arab Emirates	27,700
22	Spain	27,226
23	Singapore	26,836
24	New Zealand	26,464
25	Kuwait	26,020
26	Brunei	25,754
27	Hong Kong	25,493
28	Greece	20,327
29	Cyprus	20,214
30	Israel	19,248
31	Bahrain	18,403
32	The Bahamas	18,062
33	Portugal	17,456
34	Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands	17,270
35	Slovenia	16,986
36	South Korea	16,308
37	Republic of China (Taiwan)	15,203
38	Malta	13,803
39	Saudi Arabia	13,410
40	Oman	12,664
41	Trinidad and Tobago	12,625
42	Czech Republic	12,152
43	Barbados	11,088
44	Saint Kitts and Nevis	10,895
45	Hungary	10,814
46	Antigua and Barbuda	10,727
47	Estonia	9,727
48	Slovakia	8,775
49	Croatia	8,675
50	Seychelles	8,556
51	Poland	7,946
52	Lithuania	7,446
53	Mexico	7,298
54	Chile	7,124
55	Latvia	6,862
56	Libya	6,696
57	Botswana	6,439
58	Gabon	6,397
59	Equatorial Guinea	6,205
60	Lebanon	6,034
61	Russia	5,349
62	Uruguay	5,274
63	South Africa	5,106
64	Turkey	5,062
65	Malaysia	5,042
66	Mauritius	5,029
67	Venezuela	5,026
68	Saint Lucia	4,963
69	Argentina	4,799
70	Panama	4,794
71	Grenada	4,670
72	Costa Rica	4,620
73	Romania	4,539
74	Brazil	4,320
75	Belize	4,146
76	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3,950
77	Dominica	3,947
78	Kazakhstan	3,717
79	Jamaica	3,657
80	Bulgaria	3,459
81	Dominican Republic	3,411
82	Turkmenistan	3,406
83	Fiji	3,349
84	Algeria	3,086
85	Belarus	3,031
86	Namibia	3,022
87	Serbia	2,880
88	Peru	2,841
89	Tunisia	2,829
90	Republic of Macedonia	2,810
91	Iran	2,767
92	Ecuador	2,761
93	Albania	2,673
94	Thailand	2,659
95	Colombia	2,656
96	Suriname	2,637
97	El Salvador	2,468
98	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,384
99	Maldives	2,350
100	Swaziland	2,336
101	Jordan	2,317
102	Angola	2,129
103	Tonga	2,106
104	Cape Verde	2,066
105	Guatemala	1,995
106	Samoa	1,832
107	Republic of the Congo	1,785
108	Ukraine	1,766
109	Morocco	1,713
110	People's Republic of China	1,709
111	Iraq	1,700 [2]
112	Vanuatu	1,530
113	Azerbaijan	1,493
114	Georgia	1,480
115	Syrian Arab Republic	1,464
116	Paraguay	1,288
117	Indonesia	1,283
118	Egypt	1,265
119	Sri Lanka	1,200
120	Philippines	1,168
121	Honduras	1,148
122	Armenia	1,140
123	Bhutan	1,126
124	Guyana	1,039
125	Bolivia	993
126	Djibouti	973
127	Cameroon	952
128	Côte d'Ivoire	900
129	Moldova	861
130	Nicaragua	850
131	Sudan	820
132	Senegal	738
133	Mongolia	736
134	Pakistan	728
135	India	705
136	Nigeria	678
137	Kiribati	672
138	Mauritania	663
139	Papua New Guinea	662
140	Chad	654
141	Zambia	627
142	Lesotho	621
143	Vietnam	618
144	Comoros	615
145	Solomon Islands	611
146	Benin	592
147	Yemen	586
148	Kenya	560
149	Ghana	512
150	Laos	485
151	Haiti	478
152	Kyrgyz Republic	473
153	Uzbekistan	444
154	Mali	432
155	Burkina Faso	430
156	Cambodia	430
157	São Tomé and Príncipe	430
158	Bangladesh	400
159	Zimbabwe	383
160	Togo	377
161	Tajikistan	364
162	Guinea	355
163	Timor-Leste	352
164	Tanzania	336
165	Central African Republic	335
166	Mozambique	331
167	Nepal	322
168	The Gambia	306
169	Uganda	303
170	Afghanistan	300
171	Madagascar	282
172	Niger	274
173	Rwanda	242
174	Sierra Leone	223
175	Myanmar	219
176	Eritrea	209
177	Guinea-Bissau	190
178	Liberia	161
179	Malawi	161
180	Ethiopia	153
181	Democratic Republic of the Congo	119 [3]
182	Burundi	107

[edit] Source

• International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database, September 2006 [1]

[edit] Note

1. ^ Euro foreign exchange reference rates
2. ^ Iraq: CIA World Factbook.
3. ^ Democratic Republic of the Congo: value from World Economic Outlook Database, April 2006

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