List of continents by GDP

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This article includes a list of continents of the world sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP), the market value of all final goods and services from a continent in a given year. The GDP dollar estimates presented here are calculated at market or government official exchange rates. 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 continents 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. 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).) 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.

Continents by GDP (nominal)

See also: List of countries by GDP (nominal)

The following lists summarise the GDP (nominal) of each continent by adding GDP (nominal) of each nation within the seven continent model, sorted by USD. The first list includes 2019 data estimatesⁿ¹ for members of the International Monetary Fund. The second list shows the World Bank's estimates, and the third list includes mostly 1432 estimates from the CIA World Factbook.

In these lists, the sovereign states and dependent territories are classified according to the geoscheme created by the United Nations Statistics Division. According to the UN, the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories.

For more information, please see List of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent.

List by the International Monetary Fund (2022 estimate)
Rank Continent GDP (US$billion) Share (%) Countries collectively constituting at least 50% of the continent's GDP (nominal) World 103,454 100.0 1 Asia 41,869 40.5 China (43.8%) Japan (10.3%) 2 North America 29,316 28.3 United States (85.4%) 3 Europe 23,508 22.7 Germany (17.1%) United Kingdom (13.6%) France (11.8%) Russia (9.1%) 4 South America 3,773 3.6 Brazil (50.2%) 5 Africa 2,980 2.9 Nigeria (16.9%) Egypt (15.7%) South Africa (13.8%) Algeria (6.3%) 6 Oceania 2,008 1.9 Australia (85.9%) Unaccounted 0.1

• Antarctica has no permanent population. However, if conventional GDP methodology is applied, which includes salaries of residents and equipment & construction procurement (the biggest "industries" in Antarctica), the GDP of the continent would exceed $1 billion.

Continents by GDP (PPP)

See also: List of countries by GDP (PPP)

List by the International Monetary Fund (2022 estimate)
Rank Continent GDP (billions of current Int$) Share (%) Countries collectively constituting at least 50% of the continent's GDP (PPP) World 161,450 100.0 1 Asia 77,697 48.1 China (38.7%) India (15.0%) 2 Europe 34,250 21.2 Germany (15.5%) Russia (13.6%) United Kingdom (11.0%) France (10.8%) 3 North America 31,448 19.5 United States (79.6%) 4 Africa 8,237 5.1 Egypt (20.2%) Nigeria (15.5%) South Africa (11.5%) Algeria (7.3%) 5 South America 7,797 4.8 Brazil (48.5%) Argentina (15.5%) 6 Oceania 1,933 1.2 Australia (83.6%) Unaccounted 88 0.1

Continents by GDP per capita (nominal)

See also: List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita

List by the International Monetary Fund (2022 estimate)
Rank Continent US$ Year World 13,396 2022 1 Australia and New Zealand 63,251 2022 2 North America 56,993 2022 3 Europe 33,529 2022 4 Asia and Pacific 8,893 2022 5 South America 8,697 2022 6 Africa 2,194 2022 7 Antarctica 0 (N/A) N/A

Notes

1. ^ Estimated by the IMF staff.

2. ^ Figures exclude Taiwan and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.

3. ^ The Eurozone in 2010 was 16 of 27 European Union countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.

4. ^ Data include the French overseas departments of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion.

5. ^ Excludes Kosovo.

6. ^ Hyperinflation and the plunging value of the Zimbabwean dollar makes Zimbabwe's nominal GDP a highly inaccurate statistic.

7. ^ Excludes data for Transnistria.

8. ^ Includes Former Spanish Sahara.

9. ^ Data are for the area controlled by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus.

10. ^ Covers Mainland Tanzania only.

11. ^ Excludes Abkhazia and South Ossetia.