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.

GDP (nominal) by continents

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 (2021 estimate)
Rank Continent GDP (US$million) Year World 91,030 2021 1 Asia 34,390 2021 2 North America 24,880 2021 3 Europe 23,050 2021 4 South America 2,900 2021 5 Africa 2,490 2021 6 Oceania 1,690 2021 7 Antarctica N/A* N/A

• The Antarctica continent 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 extend $1 billion.

GDP (PPP) by continents

List by the International Monetary Fund (2021 estimate)
Rank Continent GDP (millions of current Int$) Year World 139,820,000 2021 1 Asia 63,350 2021 2 Europe 30,370 2021 3 North America 26,550 2021 4 Africa 6,840 2021 5 South America 6,530 2021 6 Oceania 1,600 2021 7 Antarctica N/A N/A

GDP per capita (nominal) by continent

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

List by the International Monetary Fund (2021 estimate)
Rank Continent US$ Year World average 11,570 2021 1 Oceania 54,690 2021 2 North America 49,430 2021 3 Europe 31,020 2021 4 Asia 7,850 2021 5 South America 6,720 2021 6 Africa 1,860 2021 7 Antarctica 0 (N/A) 2021

Notes

1. ^ Estimated by IMF staff.

2. ^ Figures exclude Taiwan, and 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, 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.