[lbo-talk] GDP per capita

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 21 16:06:43 PDT 2004


[The report from the Swedish think tank that had European living standards around those of the Mississipi delta got me crunching some numbers. Here are the per capita GDP figures for 2002 expressed as a percentage of the U.S. level, based on World Bank data. GDP is figured using purchasing power parity - i.e., an exchange rate designed to measure real buying power, with the distortions of market exchange rates stripped away. There are some problems with PPP, practical and conceptual, but it's the best we've got.]

15 High income: OECD 94.9% 13 High income 92.6% 14 European Monetary Union 84.3% 16 High income: nonOECD 55.5% 01 World 17.9% 05 Upper middle income 14.5% 09 Latin America & Caribbean 11.5% 08 Europe & Central Asia 8.1% 10 Middle East & North Africa 6.6% 03 Middle income 6.4% 04 Lower middle income 5.3% 06 Low & middle income 4.1% 07 East Asia & Pacific 3.3% 12 Sub-Saharan Africa 1.8% 11 South Asia 1.5% 02 Low income 1.5% 17 Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 1.1% 18 Least developed countries: UN classific 1.0%

Luxembourg 185.2% Switzerland 146.0% Japan 141.2% Norway 125.6% Denmark 124.4% Austria 106.8% Sweden 105.6% Germany 102.9% Finland 101.2% United States 100.0% Iceland 98.4% Netherlands 98.1% Belgium 97.5% France 96.5% Ireland 95.8% Singapore 85.5% Hong Kong, China 79.8% Australia 76.7% Canada 74.1% United Kingdom 72.0% Italy 67.1% New Zealand 59.4% Spain 56.6% United Arab Emirates 54.9% Macao, China 53.7% Israel 52.3% Cyprus 46.4% Korea, Rep. 44.8% Greece 44.4% Portugal 40.9% Slovenia 39.2% Kuwait 36.4% Bahrain 34.1% Malta 32.1% Antigua and Barbuda 29.2% Seychelles 25.3% Barbados 24.6% Saudi Arabia 23.7% Argentina 21.5% St. Kitts and Nevis 20.6% Oman 19.3% Hungary 18.0% Czech Republic 17.8% Trinidad and Tobago 17.3% Uruguay 17.2% Palau 17.1% Croatia 17.1% Chile 17.0% Malaysia 15.1% Brazil 14.6% Slovak Republic 14.5% Mauritius 14.2% Gabon 13.6% Estonia 13.5% Botswana 12.9% South Africa 12.6% Costa Rica 12.3% Poland 11.8% Mexico 11.7% St. Lucia 11.2% Grenada 11.2% Panama 10.7% Russian Federation 10.2% Belize 10.1% Dominica 9.9% Latvia 9.5% Thailand 9.4% Venezuela, RB 9.3% Lithuania 9.2% Turkey 9.2% Lebanon 9.0% Fiji 8.9% St. Vincent and the Grenadines 8.4% Tunisia 8.1% Equatorial Guinea 7.7% Macedonia, FYR 7.6% Peru 7.5% Colombia 7.2% Maldives 7.1% Dominican Republic 7.1% Namibia 6.9% Jamaica 6.6% Belarus 6.6% Kazakhstan 6.1% Suriname 5.8% Serbia and Montenegro 5.7% Iran, Islamic Rep. 5.6% Tonga 5.6% Ecuador 5.6% El Salvador 5.6% Bulgaria 5.4% Paraguay 5.3% Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 5.3% Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.3% Algeria 5.2% Jordan 5.2% Romania 5.1% Marshall Islands 5.0% Cape Verde 5.0% Swaziland 4.9% Guatemala 4.9% Samoa 4.7% Morocco 4.6% Albania 4.0% Egypt, Arab Rep. 3.9% Philippines 3.8% Vanuatu 3.7% Indonesia 3.3% Ukraine 3.2% Guyana 3.0% China 3.0% Bolivia 2.9% West Bank and Gaza 2.8% Sri Lanka 2.8% Turkmenistan 2.7% Papua New Guinea 2.7% Syrian Arab Republic 2.6% Cote d'Ivoire 2.4% Georgia 2.4% Armenia 2.4% Djibouti 2.3% Honduras 2.2% Congo, Rep. 2.2% Cameroon 2.2% Uzbekistan 2.2% Kiribati 2.1% Lesotho 2.0% Azerbaijan 2.0% Guinea 2.0% Angola 2.0% Senegal 1.9% Bhutan 1.8% Solomon Islands 1.7% Zimbabwe 1.6% Pakistan 1.6% Mauritania 1.6% Nicaragua 1.6% India 1.5% Lao PDR 1.5% Kyrgyz Republic 1.4% Benin 1.4% Mongolia 1.4% Comoros 1.4% Ghana 1.3% Zambia 1.3% Cambodia 1.3% Moldova 1.3% Vietnam 1.3% Bangladesh 1.2% Uganda 1.1% Gambia, The 1.1% Sao Tome and Principe 1.1% Haiti 1.1% Central African Republic 1.0% Sudan 1.0% Yemen, Rep. 1.0% Kenya 1.0% Togo 1.0% Mali 1.0% Rwanda 0.9% Burkina Faso 0.9% Nigeria 0.8% Nepal 0.8% Tajikistan 0.7% Chad 0.7% Mozambique 0.7% Madagascar 0.7% Niger 0.7% Tanzania 0.6% Liberia 0.6% Sierra Leone 0.5% Guinea-Bissau 0.5% Eritrea 0.5% Malawi 0.5% Burundi 0.4% Ethiopia 0.4% Congo, Dem. Rep. 0.3% Bahamas, The 0.0% Bermuda 0.0% French Polynesia 0.0% New Caledonia 0.0% Puerto Rico 0.0%



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list