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See also: List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita, List of countries by real GDP per capita growth, List of countries by real GDP growth rate, List of countries by average wage, and List of countries by GNI (nominal) per capita
Countries or territories by GDP (nominal) per capita in 2024
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Nominal gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is the total value of a country's finished goods and services (gross domestic product) divided by its total population (per capita).

Gross domestic product per capita is often used as a proxy indicator an indicator of a country's standard of living; however, this is inaccurate because GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income and does not take into account social and environmental costs and benefits.[1][2] Measures of personal income include average wage, real income, median income, disposable income and gross national income (GNI) per capita.

Comparisons of GDP per capita are also frequently made on the basis of purchasing power parity (PPP), to adjust for differences in the cost of living in different countries. PPP largely removes the exchange rate problem but not others; it does not reflect the value of economic output in international trade, and it also requires more estimation than GDP per capita.[relevant to this section? – discuss] On the whole, PPP per capita figures are more narrowly spread than nominal GDP per capita figures.

GDP per capita does not consider differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results may 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 from one year to the next, while the standard of living of its population might not change by as much.

Several leading GDP-per-capita (nominal) jurisdictions may be considered tax havens, and their GDP data subject to material distortion by tax-planning activities. Examples include Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Ireland and Luxembourg.[3]

Non-sovereign entities (the world, continents, and some dependent territories) and states with limited international recognition are included in the list in cases in which they appear in the sources. These economies are not ranked in the charts (except Kosovo and Taiwan), but are listed in sequence by GDP for comparison. Four UN members (Cuba, Monaco and North Korea) do not belong to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), hence their economies are not ranked. Kosovo, is not a member of the United Nations and is a member of the IMF. Taiwan is not an IMF member, but it is listed in the official IMF indices.

Distorted GDP-per-capita for tax havens

Main articles: Corporate haven § GDP-per-capita tax haven proxy, and Corporate haven § Distorted GDP/GNP

Many of the leading GDP-per-capita (nominal) jurisdictions are tax havens whose economic data is artificially inflated by tax-driven corporate accounting entries. For instance, the Irish GDP data above is subject to material distortion by the tax planning activities of foreign multinationals in Ireland. To address this, in 2017 the Central Bank of Ireland created "modified GNI" (or GNI*) as a more appropriate statistic, and the OECD and IMF have adopted it for Ireland. 2015 Irish GDP is 143% of 2015 Irish GNI*.

A stunning $12 trillion—almost 40 percent of all foreign direct investment positions globally—is completely artificial: it consists of financial investment passing through empty corporate shells with no real activity. These investments in empty corporate shells almost always pass through well-known tax havens. The eight major pass-through economies—the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Hong Kong SAR, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, and Singapore—host more than 85 percent of the world’s investment in special purpose entities, which are often set up for tax reasons.

— "Piercing the Veil", International Monetary Fund, June 2018[4]

Table

All data are in current United States dollars. Historical data see list of countries by past and projected GDP (nominal) per capita.

The table initially ranks each country or territory by its IMF estimate, and can be reranked by any of the sources.

Nominal GDP (in USD) per capita by country, territory, non-sovereign state or non-IMF member
Country/Territory IMF
(2025)[a][5] 		World Bank
(2022–24)[6] 		United Nations
(2023)[7]
 Monaco — 256,581 256,581
 Liechtenstein 231,713 207,973 207,150
 Luxembourg 146,818 137,516 128,936
 Bermuda — 138,935 125,842
 Ireland 129,132 107,316 106,106
 Switzerland 111,047 103,670 100,831
 Iceland 98,150 82,704 80,827
 Cayman Islands — 97,750 97,583
 Singapore 94,481 90,674 86,616
 Norway 91,884 86,810 87,932
 United States 89,599 85,810 80,706
 Isle of Man — 88,329 —
 Denmark 76,581 71,852 68,440
 Macau 74,921 73,047 64,158
 Channel Islands — 74,589 —
 Netherlands 73,174 68,219 63,803
 Faroe Islands — 71,774 —
 Qatar 71,441 76,276 71,499
 Australia 65,946 64,408 67,129
 San Marino 65,269 54,265 58,917
 Sweden 62,036 57,723 55,439
 Austria 61,694 56,833 56,042
 Belgium 60,418 55,723 55,049
 Israel 60,009 54,177 55,488
 Germany 59,993 55,800 53,528
 Greenland — 58,499 54,374
 Hong Kong 56,844 54,107 51,166
 United Kingdom 56,661 52,637 49,224
 Finland 56,084 53,189 52,762
 Canada 54,935 54,283 54,517
 United Arab Emirates 51,348 49,378 48,311
 France 49,961 46,150 44,451
 Andorra 49,451 49,304 46,812
 New Zealand 49,383 48,747 48,750
 Malta 49,277 42,347 41,676
 European Union[n 1] 46,805 43,145 —
 U.S. Virgin Islands — 44,321 —
 Italy 43,161 40,226 38,672
 Cyprus[n 2] 42,413 38,654 37,077
 Guam — 41,833 —
 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) — 40,028 39,237
 Puerto Rico 39,854 39,285 36,367
 Bahamas 39,726 39,355 35,896
 Aruba 39,606 33,985 33,802
 British Virgin Islands — — 38,627
 Spain 38,040 35,298 33,814
 Taiwan[n 3] 37,827 — —
 Slovenia 37,178 34,089 32,642
 Brunei 37,020 33,418 32,963
 South Korea 35,962 33,121 35,538
 Saudi Arabia 35,231 32,094 32,094
 Czech Republic 35,161 31,707 31,750
 Japan 34,713 32,476 33,806
 Estonia 34,041 31,170 30,201
 New Caledonia — 33,516 34,981
 Lithuania 32,982 29,386 27,956
 Portugal 31,415 28,844 27,718
 Guyana 31,378 29,884 20,189
 Kuwait 30,805 33,730 33,832
 Turks and Caicos Islands — 30,349 30,349
 Bahrain 29,253 30,048 28,453
 Anguilla — — 28,850
 Slovakia 28,524 26,148 24,086
 Poland 28,485 25,023 20,876
 Greece 27,170 24,752 23,772
 Croatia 26,958 23,932 21,661
 Barbados 25,927 25,365 23,804
 Hungary 25,916 23,310 21,954
 Cook Islands — — 25,750
 Latvia 25,630 23,367 22,444
 Uruguay 24,380 23,907 22,796
 Northern Mariana Islands — 23,786 —
 French Polynesia — 22,774 22,759
 Romania 22,436 20,072 18,348
 Antigua and Barbuda 22,314 23,726 21,787
 Curaçao — 22,192 17,697
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 22,158 22,771 22,625
 Seychelles 21,956 17,859 16,735
 Saint Martin (French part) — 21,668 —
 Bulgaria 20,426 17,412 15,068
 Panama 19,802 19,103 18,701
 Palau 19,456 15,899 15,899
 Oman 19,119 20,248 20,972
 Costa Rica 19,104 18,587 16,942
 Maldives 18,684 13,215 12,530
 Cuba — — 18,329
 Turkey 18,198 15,473 12,814
 Montserrat — — 18,197
 Trinidad and Tobago 18,121 19,315 16,960
 American Samoa — 18,018 —
 Russia 17,446 14,889 13,809
 Chile 17,181 16,710 17,068
 Serbia 15,322 13,524 11,101
 Montenegro 14,986 12,936 11,885
 Kazakhstan 14,723 14,005 13,000
 Saint Lucia 14,647 14,182 13,555
 Argentina 14,359 13,858 14,187
 Nauru 14,274 13,422 14,812
 World 14,217 13,673 13,097
 Mexico 13,967 14,157 13,826
 Malaysia 13,901 11,867 11,377
 China[n 4] 13,806 13,303 12,509
 Grenada 12,544 11,872 11,246
 Mauritius 12,519 11,872 11,304
 Dominican Republic 11,919 10,876 10,718
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 11,132 11,501 10,767
 Albania 11,108 10,012 8,172
 Turkmenistan 10,801 8,572 8,132
 Brazil 10,578 10,280 10,378
 North Macedonia 10,378 9,310 8,606
 Georgia[n 5] 10,126 8,284 9,194
 Dominica 9,944 10,405 9,786
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 9,648 8,957 8,639
 Belarus 9,435 8,316 7,883
 Gabon 9,303 8,219 8,071
 Peru 9,256 8,452 7,907
 Armenia 8,969 8,501 8,228
 Jamaica 8,405 7,020 6,840
 Marshall Islands 8,287 7,467 6,952
 Colombia 8,249 7,914 6,948
 Moldova[n 6] 8,239 7,618 5,393
 Equatorial Guinea 8,229 6,745 6,558
 Kosovo 8,033 7,299 6,157
 Thailand 7,942 7,345 7,182
 Belize 7,897 8,430 7,489
 Azerbaijan 7,365 7,284 7,012
 Ecuador 7,210 6,875 6,610
 Mongolia 7,005 6,692 5,790
 Botswana 6,943 7,695 7,820
 Libya 6,866 6,318 6,027
 Suriname 6,843 7,431 5,976
 Fiji 6,825 6,288 5,889
 Paraguay 6,799 6,416 6,276
 South Africa 6,667 6,253 5,976
 Guatemala 6,478 6,150 5,763
 Ukraine[n 7] 6,382 5,390 4,737
 Algeria 6,095 5,631 5,364
 Tonga 5,921 4,864 4,859
 Samoa 5,887 4,899 4,765
 Iraq 5,832 6,074 5,149
 Tuvalu 5,830 6,345 6,880
 El Salvador 5,744 5,580 5,391
 Cape Verde 5,671 5,273 4,961
 Lebanon 5,282 (2024) 3,478 4,757
 Micronesia 5,241 4,166 4,084
 Indonesia 5,074 4,925 4,876
 Jordan 4,908 4,456 4,442
 Namibia 4,816 4,413 4,168
 Morocco 4,763 3,993 3,830
 Tunisia 4,752 4,350 3,979
 Vietnam 4,745 4,717 4,282
 Bolivia 4,585 4,001 3,686
 Eswatini 4,410 3,936 3,717
 Djibouti 4,369 3,497 3,469
 Sri Lanka 4,325 (2024) 4,516 3,673
 Philippines 4,321 3,985 3,805
 Bhutan 4,285 3,839 3,839
 Iran 4,074 4,771 4,432
 São Tomé and Príncipe 4,061 3,245 2,963
 Uzbekistan 3,647 3,162 2,549
 Honduras 3,637 3,426 3,232
 Ghana 3,193 2,405 2,260
 Egypt 3,191 3,339 2,895
 Vanuatu 3,133 3,543 3,492
 Venezuela 3,103 — 4,925
 Ivory Coast 3,016 2,710 2,528
 Nicaragua 2,953 2,848 2,613
 Angola 2,931 2,122 2,464
 India 2,818 2,697 2,487
 Cambodia 2,812 2,627 2,458
 Kyrgyzstan 2,790 2,419 1,977
 Bangladesh 2,734 2,593 2,464
 Zimbabwe 2,656 2,656 1,858
 Mauritania 2,582 2,121 2,121
 Papua New Guinea 2,555 3,076 2,986
 Kenya 2,549 2,206 1,952
 Kiribati 2,481 2,288 2,178
 Haiti 2,461 2,142 1,705
 Palestine[n 8][n 9] 2,443 (2024) 2,592 3,640
 Congo 2,420 2,482 2,291
 Solomon Islands 2,386 2,149 2,042
 Laos 2,174 2,124 1,958
 Cameroon 2,027 1,762 1,737
 Senegal 1,921 1,744 1,682
 Comoros 1,773 1,784 1,703
 Guinea 1,741 1,717 1,597
 Pakistan 1,707 1,484 1,212
 Tajikistan 1,644 1,341 1,161
 Benin 1,635 1,485 1,394
 Nepal 1,535 1,447 1,363
 Timor-Leste 1,508 1,343 1,503
 Uganda 1,353 1,072 1,049
 Zambia 1,353 1,235 1,331
 Tanzania[n 10] 1,302 1,185 1,209
 Zanzibar — 1,225 1,374
 Guinea-Bissau 1,225 963 855
 Nigeria 1,200 807 1,646
 Chad 1,139 1,016 913
 Togo 1,120 1,043 997
 Burkina Faso 1,115 987 883
 Myanmar 1,097 1,359 1,147
 Rwanda 1,043 1000 1,010
 Mali 1,014 1,086 833
 Lesotho 1,001 972 916
 Ethiopia 994 1,011 1,241
 Sierra Leone 980 873 758
 Liberia 904 846 917
 Gambia 890 909 890
 Syria — 847 1,230
 Niger 789 723 643
 DR Congo 772 647 655
 Somalia 763 637 597
 Sudan 712 989 680
 Mozambique 690 647 623
 Eritrea — — 656
 North Korea — — 640
 Malawi 622 602 509
 Madagascar 616 545 598
 Central African Republic 599 516 496
 Burundi 486 154 289
 Yemen — 433 222
 Afghanistan 417 (2024) 414 396
 South Sudan 313 — 403
Notes:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The following countries are from 2023–2024 data: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Sri Lanka.
  1. ^ The European Union is included because it is far more than a free trade association such as ASEAN, NAFTA, or Mercosur. It has certain attributes associated with independent countries: its own flag, anthem, currency (for some members), parliament and other law-making abilities, as well as diplomatic representation and a common foreign and security policy when dealing with external partners. However, because the EU is an organization and not a sovereign state, it does not receive a ranking in this list.
  2. ^ Data are for the area controlled by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus.
  3. ^ The name used by the IMF is the "Taiwan Province of China".
  4. ^ Figures for China exclude Taiwan, and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
  5. ^ Excludes Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
  6. ^ Excludes data for Transnistria.
  7. ^ Figures exclude the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.
  8. ^ The name used by the IMF and World Bank is the "West Bank and Gaza"
  9. ^ The name used by the UN is the "State of Palestine".
  10. ^ The UN figure excludes autonomous region of Zanzibar.

References

  1. ^ O'Sullivan, Arthur
  2. ^ French President seeks alternatives to GDP, The Guardian 14-09-2009."European Parliament, Policy Department Economic and Scientific Policy: Beyond GDP Study" (PDF). (1.47 MB)
  3. ^ Richard Phillips; Matt Gardner; Alexandria Robins; Michelle Surka (2017). "Offshore Shell Games 2017" (PDF). Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
  4. ^ "Piercing the Veil, FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT, JUNE 2018, VOL. 55, NO. 2". IMF Finance & Development. June 2018.
  5. ^ "Data Explorer". data.imf.org. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  6. ^ "GDP per capita (current US$)". World Development Indicators. The World Bank. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  7. ^ [1], (Select all countries, "GDP, Per Capita GDP–US Dollars", and "2023" to generate the table), United Nations Statistics Division. Access date: 12 February 2023.
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