[lbo-talk] ooops

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 21 17:05:26 PDT 2004


[Sorry, I screwed up and copied from the wrong spreadsheet - GDP per capita in 1995 U.S. dollars converted at market exchange rates. Here's what I'd promised, GDP per capita at purchasing power parity exchange rates. Ok, so the EU is as poor as Mississippi, though that sure isn't the way it seems. We have more Hummers, for sure.]

01 World 21.9% 02 Low income 5.9% 03 Middle income 16.4% 04 Lower middle income 15.0% 05 Upper middle income 27.2% 06 Low & middle income 11.4% 07 East Asia & Pacific 12.1% 08 Europe & Central Asia 19.6% 09 Latin America & Caribbean 19.9% 10 Middle East & North Africa 15.7% 11 South Asia 6.9% 12 Sub-Saharan Africa 4.8% 13 High income 79.5% 14 European Monetary Union 72.0% 15 High income: OECD 81.3% 17 Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 3.7% 18 Least developed countries: UN classificatio 3.5%

Luxembourg 171.2% Norway 102.4% Ireland 101.7% United States 100.0% Denmark 86.6% Switzerland 83.9% Iceland 83.2% Canada 82.5% Austria 81.7% Netherlands 81.4% Australia 79.1% Belgium 77.1% Germany 75.8% Japan 75.4% France 75.3% Hong Kong, China 75.3% Italy 73.9% Finland 73.3% United Kingdom 73.2% Sweden 72.9% Singapore 67.3% New Zealand 60.8% Spain 60.0% Israel 54.6% Greece 52.4% Slovenia 51.9% Portugal 51.1% Malta 49.4% Bahrain 48.0% Korea, Rep. 47.4% Kuwait 45.4% Czech Republic 44.1% Barbados 42.8% Hungary 37.5% Oman 37.3% Slovak Republic 35.9% Saudi Arabia 35.4% St. Kitts and Nevis 34.7% Estonia 34.3% Antigua and Barbuda 30.5% Argentina 30.4% Mauritius 30.2% Poland 29.5% Lithuania 28.9% Croatia 28.6% South Africa 28.2% Chile 27.5% Trinidad and Tobago 26.4% Latvia 25.8% Malaysia 25.5% Mexico 25.1% Costa Rica 24.7% Russian Federation 23.0% Botswana 22.8% Uruguay 21.9% Brazil 21.7% Grenada 20.4% Bulgaria 20.0% Thailand 19.6% Tonga 19.2% Tunisia 18.9% Iran, Islamic Rep. 18.7% Dominican Republic 18.6% Gabon 18.4% Romania 18.3% Macedonia, FYR 18.1% Turkey 17.9% Colombia 17.8% Namibia 17.4% Panama 17.2% Belize 17.0% Kazakhstan 16.4% Algeria 16.1% Dominica 15.8% Samoa 15.7% Belarus 15.4% St. Vincent and the Grenadines 15.3% Fiji 15.2% Venezuela, RB 15.1% St. Lucia 14.8% Peru 14.0% Cape Verde 14.0% El Salvador 13.7% Ukraine 13.6% Albania 13.5% Paraguay 12.9% China 12.8% Swaziland 12.7% Lebanon 12.2% Guyana 11.9% Jordan 11.8% Philippines 11.7% Guatemala 11.4% Jamaica 11.1% Morocco 10.7% Egypt, Arab Rep. 10.6% Syrian Arab Republic 10.1% Ecuador 10.0% Sri Lanka 10.0% Indonesia 9.0% Azerbaijan 9.0% Armenia 8.7% Vanuatu 8.1% India 7.5% Honduras 7.3% Nicaragua 6.9% Bolivia 6.9% Lesotho 6.8% Vietnam 6.4% Papua New Guinea 6.3% Georgia 6.3% Mauritania 6.2% Angola 6.0% Ghana 5.9% Guinea 5.9% Cambodia 5.7% Cameroon 5.6% Djibouti 5.6% Pakistan 5.4% Sudan 5.1% Lao PDR 4.8% Mongolia 4.8% Bangladesh 4.7% Gambia, The 4.7% Comoros 4.7% Uzbekistan 4.7% Kyrgyz Republic 4.5% Haiti 4.5% Solomon Islands 4.5% Senegal 4.4% Cote d'Ivoire 4.3% Togo 4.1% Moldova 4.1% Uganda 3.9% Nepal 3.8% Rwanda 3.6% Central African Republic 3.3% Burkina Faso 3.1% Benin 3.0% Mozambique 2.9% Chad 2.9% Kenya 2.8% Congo, Rep. 2.7% Tajikistan 2.7% Mali 2.6% Eritrea 2.5% Yemen, Rep. 2.4% Nigeria 2.4% Zambia 2.3% Niger 2.2% Ethiopia 2.2% Madagascar 2.1% Guinea-Bissau 2.0% Congo, Dem. Rep. 1.8% Burundi 1.8% Malawi 1.6% Tanzania 1.6% Sierra Leone 1.5%



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