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List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita

A country's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita is the PPP value of all final goods and services produced within an economy in a given year, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year. This is similar to nominal GDP per capita but adjusted for the cost of living in each country.

Countries or territories by GDP (PPP) per capita in 2026
  >$70,000
  $60,000–70,000
  $50,000–60,000
  $40,000–50,000
  $30,000–40,000
  $20,000–30,000
  $10,000–20,000
  $5,000–10,000
  $2,500–5,000
  $1,000–2,500
  <$1,000
  No data

In 2026, the estimated average GDP per capita (PPP) of all of the countries was $25,591.[a] For rankings regarding wealth, see list of countries by wealth per adult.

Method

The gross domestic product (GDP) per capita figures on this page are derived from PPP calculations. Such calculations are prepared by various organizations, including the IMF and the World Bank. As estimates and assumptions have to be made, the results produced by different organizations for the same country are not hard facts and tend to differ, sometimes substantially, so they should be used with caution.

Comparisons of national wealth are frequently made based on nominal GDP and savings (not just income), which do not reflect differences in the cost of living in different countries (see List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita); hence, using a PPP basis is arguably more useful when comparing generalized differences in living standards between economies because PPP takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates of the countries, rather than using only exchange rates, which may distort the real differences in income.

This is why GDP (PPP) per capita is considered one of the indicators of a country's standard of living,[2][3] The relation between GDP per capita and standard of living has been criticized. Alternative measures of standard of living include list of countries by average wage, median income and disposable household and per capita income. GDP (PPP) and GDP (PPP) per capita are usually measured by international dollar, which is a hypothetical currency that has the same purchasing power in every economy as the U.S. dollar in the United States. The share of the shadow economy is significant in many European countries, ranging from less than 10 to over 40% of GDP.[4] Since 2014, EU member states have been encouraged by Eurostat, the official statistics body, to include some illegal activities.[5][6][7]

Table

Main table

All figures are in current international dollars, and rounded to the nearest whole number. The table initially ranks each country or territory with their latest available year's estimates, and can be re-ranked by any of the sources.

* Nearly all country links in the table connect to articles titled "Income in (country or territory)" or to "Economy of (country or territory)".

GDP per capita (current international dollar) by country or  territory, non-sovereign state or non-IMF member 
Country / territory IMF[8][9][10]
(2026)		 World Bank[b][11]
(2025 or
2024)		 CIA[c][12][13][14]
(2023 or
2024)
 Monaco * N/a N/a 270,100
 Liechtenstein * 195,372 N/a 210,600
 Singapore * 173,708 163,454 132,600
 Ireland * 159,129 155,089 115,300
 Luxembourg * 156,719 155,089 128,200
 Macau * 140,423 137,031 112,800
 Norway * 115,548 104,044 91,100
 Qatar * 112,312 128,883 110,900
 Bermuda * N/a 118,728 105,300
 Switzerland * 105,680 102,513 82,000
 Taiwan * 103,743 N/a 32,300
 Brunei * 97,858 90,007 79,200
 Guyana * 98,912 97,899 70,300
 United States * 94,430 90,027 75,500
 Denmark * 89,667 83,218 73,700
 United Arab Emirates * 87,774 79,344 68,600
 Cayman Islands * N/a 86,689 78,100
 Netherlands * 87,773 87,320 70,900
 San Marino * 87,141 75,942 70,900
 Hong Kong * 84,212 75,216 66,200
 Iceland * 82,730 83,431 65,600
 Malta * 82,421 72,211 60,500
 Faroe Islands * N/a 78,165 70,400
 Saudi Arabia * 78,815 71,243 62,700
 Belgium * 78,334 74,676 63,100
 Austria * 78,334 76,778 63,300
 Sweden * 77,094 72,529 63,300
 Germany * 76,747 75,407 62,800
 Andorra * 75,988 79,567 65,900
 Australia * 74,755 71,934 60,100
 Bahrain * 70,165 70,997 59,100
 Canada * 70,006 66,746 56,700
 Finland * 68,861 65,885 55,600
 South Korea * 68,624 63,125 50,400
 France * 68,567 63,975 54,500
 European Union *[n 1] 67,957 62,266 54,300
 Cyprus *[n 2] 67,796 61,240 53,300
 United Kingdom * 67,585 64,607 52,500
 Italy * 65,761 62,803 53,100
 Czech Republic * 63,550 60,487 48,000
 Lithuania * 61,052 56,838 47,200
 Slovenia * 60,664 59,244 48,500
 Poland * 59,792 54,262 45,100
 Japan * 59,207 55,422 46,100
 Spain * 59,187 59,868 48,400
 Israel * 59,095 59,717 47,300
 Aruba * 58,480 44,967 40,500
 New Zealand * 58,308 57,350 48,200
 Croatia * 54,359 50,946 42,600
 Kuwait * 54,303 56,468 45,400
 Puerto Rico * 53,146 52,196 44,100
 Portugal * 52,841 53,145 41,900
 Russia * 52,479 49,568 41,700
 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) * N/a 56,491 45,800
 Estonia * 51,653 52,106 41,500
 Romania * 50,783 50,895 40,600
 Hungary * 50,570 49,838 40,700
 U.S. Virgin Islands * N/a 49,793 46,500
 Slovakia * 49,466 49,309 40,300
 Kazakhstan * 48,250 44,294 35,900
 Greece * 47,175 45,264 37,800
 Malaysia * 46,986 41,498 34,100
 Turkey * 46,672 45,288 35,300
 Panama * 46,405 43,902 36,400
 Latvia * 45,840 46,137 38,900
 Oman * 45,698 42,295 36,700
 Bulgaria * 45,642 44,451 34,100
 Bahamas * 44,106 41,258 36,200
 Uruguay * 39,030 38,315 32,000
 Maldives * 37,826 24,809 23,400
 Chile * 37,336 37,774 30,200
 Trinidad and Tobago * 37,098 37,121 31,700
 Montenegro * 36,333 35,422 27,900
 Seychelles * 35,855 35,854 29,200
 Mauritius * 34,830 33,667 27,300
 Belarus * 35,616 33,006 29,000
 Saint Kitts and Nevis * 35,616 36,777 31,300
 Serbia * 34,863 33,910 26,900
 Costa Rica * 34,157 33,815 27,000
 Georgia *[n 3] 33,990 29,414 25,000
 Argentina * 33,187 32,587 26,500
 Antigua and Barbuda * 32,921 35,833 29,600
 Dominican Republic * 32,178 28,721 24,200
 North Macedonia * 31,746 28,029 24,500
 China *[n 4][n 5] 31,596 29,333 23,800
 Curaçao * N/a 30,716
 Saint Lucia * 30,398 28,674 24,300
 Thailand * 27,441 26,250 21,700
 Armenia * 27,024 24,754 20,100
 Azerbaijan * 26,800 26,113 22,100
 Mexico * 26,643 25,869 22,000
 Barbados * 26,408 25,894 19,900
 Gabon * 25,847 22,218 18,900
 World [i] 25,591 24,248 21,300
 Albania * 25,247 28,221 18,900
 Brazil * 24,428 23,433 19,600
 Turkmenistan * 24,349 20,408 18,000
 Turks and Caicos Islands * N/a 24,820 33,400
 Bosnia and Herzegovina * 24,123 25,814 20,400
 Colombia * 23,576 22,640 18,500
 Paraguay * 23,349 20,181 16,300
 Egypt * 23,321 20,204 16,800
 Suriname * 22,985 22,067 19,400
 Grenada * 22,729 20,167 17,700
 Ukraine *[n 6] 22,443 18,905 16,300
 Mongolia * 22,192 20,798 16,800
 Botswana * 22,039 20,698 18,100
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines * 21,990 22,799 18,700
 Kosovo * 21,799 19,263 16,400
 Moldova *[n 7] 21,170 19,996 16,500
 Palau * 20,641 23,051.7 15,800
 Dominica * 20,602 22,713 18,700
 Iran * 20,279 19,699 16,200
 Bhutan * 20,135 16,254 14,600
 Peru * 20,116 18,816 15,700
 Algeria * 19,677 18,586 15,400
 Vietnam * 19,649 18,089 14,400
 Equatorial Guinea * 19,061 16,133 15,500
 Indonesia * 18,973 17,660 14,500
 Libya * 18,749 16,521 12,300
 Sri Lanka * 18,246 17,065 13,800
 Ecuador * 17,720 16,757 13,900
 Fiji * 17,209 16,337 14,100
 South Africa * 16,740 15,906 13,600
 Guatemala * 16,021 15,197 12,600
 Tunisia * 15,833 15,234 12,700
 Belize * 15,694 14,966 13,300
 El Salvador * 14,838 14,101 11,700
 Iraq * 14,376 14,267 12,700
 Eswatini * 14,244 12,529 10,400
 Uzbekistan * 14,179 13,601 10,500
 Jamaica * 13,897 13,291 10,300
 Philippines * 13,639 12,577 10,400
 Cape Verde *[n 8] 13,313 11,262 9,900
 Jordan * 13,257 12,631 9,500
 India * 12,997 11,748 9,800
 Bolivia * 12,692 12,873 9,800
 Namibia * 12,666 11,986 10,300
 Nauru * 12,322 14,326 12,600
 Lebanon * N/a 12,575 11,300
 Morocco *[n 9] 12,336 10,305 9,100
 Laos * 10,964 9,788 8,600
 Bangladesh * 10,955 9,646 8,500
 Angola * 10,446 8,348 7,300
 Nicaragua * 10,211 8,709 7,700
 Djibouti * 10,166 7,776 6,800
 Kyrgyzstan * 10,024 8,009 7,000
 Nigeria * 9,994 6,440 5,700
 Venezuela * 9,461 N/a 4,900
 Mauritania * 9,280 7,271 6,400
 Ghana * 9,116 8,027 7,100
 Cambodia * 8,890 7,970 7,000
 Samoa * 8,894 7,837 6,900
 Ivory Coast * 8,672 7,654 6,700
 Marshall Islands * 8,503 8,198 7,200
 Tonga * 8,488 7,852 7,100
 Zimbabwe * 8,443 3,921 3,500
 Honduras * 8,222 7,486 6,600
 Kenya * 8,020 6,619 5,800
 Pakistan * 7,433 6,287 5,500
 Congo * 6,712 7,026 6,200
 São Tomé and Príncipe * 6,711 6,230 5,500
 Tajikistan * 6,616 5,406 4,800
 Nepal * 6,551 5,736 5,000
 Tuvalu * 6,447 6,151 5,800
 Cameroon * 5,993 5,592 4,900
 Palestine[n 10][n 11] 5,612 4,371 3,800
 Senegal * 5,565 5,110 4,500
 Myanmar *[n 12] 5,315 5,980 5,300
 Timor-Leste * 5,270 4,758 4,200
 Guinea * 5,177 4,579 4,000
 Benin * 5,088 4,435 3,900
 Federated States of Micronesia * 5,052 4,346 3,800
 Ethiopia * 4,974 3,278 2,900
 Syria * N/a 4,650 4,200
 Zambia * 4,572 4,224 3,700
 Tanzania * 4,607 4,220 3,700
 Rwanda * 4,523 3,711 3,300
 Comoros * 4,222 4,055 3,600
 Uganda * 4,192 3,276 2,900
 Vanuatu * 4,099 3,602 3,200
 Papua New Guinea * 3,986 4,889 4,300
 Kiribati * 3,921 3,702 3,300
 Sierra Leone * 3,909 1,847 3,100
 Gambia * 3,865 3,445 3,000
 Togo * 3,757 3,239 2,800
 Mali * 3,665 3,308 2,900
 Guinea-Bissau * 3,495 3,053 2,700
 Chad * 3,458 2,961 2,600
 Lesotho * 3,300 2,998 2,600
 Burkina Faso * 3,227 2,896 2,500
 Haiti * 2,993 2,999 2,800
 Solomon Islands * 2,694 2,872 2,500
 Sudan * 2,451 2,127 1,900
 Afghanistan * N/a 2,201 2,000
 Niger * 2,232 2,015 1,800
 Madagascar * 2,106 1,884 1,700
 DR Congo * 2,144 1,710 1,500
 Liberia * 2,095 1,884 1,700
 Somalia * 1,956 1,600 1,400
 Malawi * 1,797 1,859 1,600
 Mozambique * 1,699 1,670 1,500
 Yemen * 1,596 N/a 200
 South Sudan * 1,540 N/a 400
 Central African Republic * 1,468 1,263 1,100
 Burundi * 1,031 950 800

Other territories

GDP per capita (current international dollar) by  territory, non-sovereign state or non-IMF member 
Territory CIA[12]
Estimate Year
 Monaco * 270,100 2024
 Liechtenstein * 210,600 2024
 Isle of Man * 84,600 2014
 Greenland * 71,000 2023
 Falkland Islands * 70,800 2015
 Gibraltar * 61,700 2014
 Jersey * 56,600 2016
 Guernsey * 52,500 2014
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon * 46,200 2006
 British Virgin Islands * 40,500 2024
 Guam * 35,600 2016
 New Caledonia * 34,600 2024
 Anguilla * 31,000 2024
 Cook Islands * 29,800 2024
 Northern Mariana Islands * 24,500 2016
 Cuba * 23,700 2024
 French Polynesia * 23,300 2024
 Saint Martin (French part) * 19,300 2005
 Montserrat * 19,300 2024
 American Samoa * 11,200 2016
 Niue * 11,100 2021
 Saint Helena, Ascension and
Tristan da Cunha		 7,800 2010
 Tokelau * 6,004 2017
 Wallis and Futuna * 3,800 2004
 Eritrea * 700 2024
 North Korea * 600 2023

Footnotes

  1. ↑ There is no explicit "GDP (PPP) per capita" World estimate provided by the IMF. For this figure, the GDP (PPP) world value[10] has been divided by the global population according to the IMF.[15]
  1. ↑ The EU is included because it is much more than a free-trade association like ASEAN, NAFTA, or Mercosur. -- See: "The World Factbook". CIA. 2014. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2022. Although the EU is not a federation in the strict sense, it is far more than a free-trade association such as ASEAN, NAFTA, or Mercosur, and it has certain attributes associated with independent nations: its flag, currency (for some members), and law-making abilities, as well as diplomatic representation and a common foreign and security policy in its dealings with external partners. Thus, the inclusion of basic intelligence on the EU has been deemed appropriate as a new, separate entity in The World Factbook. -- However, because the EU is an organization and not a sovereign state, it does not receive a ranking in this list.
  2. ↑ Data is for the area controlled by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus.
  3. ↑ Excludes data for Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
  4. ↑ IMF and CIA figures exclude Taiwan and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
  5. ↑ World Bank figures exclude the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
  6. ↑ Figures exclude the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.
  7. ↑ Excludes data for Transnistria.
  8. ↑ Referred to as "Cabo Verde".
  9. ↑ Includes Western Sahara.
  10. ↑ Referred to as "West Bank and Gaza" in the IMF and World Bank reports.
  11. ↑ CIA registers 2 separate entries for Palestine: "West Bank" and "Gaza Strip". Figures for West Bank include the Gaza Strip -- see "The World Factbook - West Bank". CIA.gov. 15 November 2022. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021.
  12. ↑ Referred to as "Burma".

Distorted GDP-per-capita for tax havens

There are many natural economic reasons for GDP-per-capita to vary between jurisdictions (e.g. places rich in oil and gas tend to have high GDP-per-capita figures). However, it is increasingly being recognized that tax havens, or corporate tax havens, have distorted economic data which produces artificially high, or inflated, GDP-per-capita figures.[16] It is estimated that over 15% of global jurisdictions are tax havens (see tax haven lists).[17] An IMF investigation estimates that circa 40% of global foreign direct investment flows, which heavily influence the GDP of various jurisdictions, are described as "phantom" transactions.[18]

A stunning $12 trillion—almost 40 per cent 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 per cent 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[18]

In 2017, Ireland's economic data became so distorted by U.S. multinational tax avoidance strategies (see leprechaun economics), also known as BEPS actions, that Ireland effectively abandoned GDP (and GNP) statistics as credible measures of its economy, and created a replacement statistic called modified gross national income (or GNI*). Ireland is one of the world's largest corporate tax havens.

Ireland has, more or less, stopped using GDP to measure its economy. And on current trends [because Irish GDP is distorting EU-28 aggregate data], the eurozone taken as a whole may need to consider something similar.

— Brad Setser, Council on Foreign Relations, "Ireland exports its Leprechaun", 25 April 2018[19]

The statistical distortions created by the impact on the Irish National Accounts of the global assets and activities of a handful of large multinational corporations have now become so large as to make a mockery of conventional uses of Irish GDP.

— Patrick Honohan, ex-Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, 13 July 2016[20]

A list of the top 15 GDP-per-capita countries from 2016 to 2017, contains most of the major global tax havens (see GDP-per-capita tax haven proxy for more detail):

International Monetary Fund (2017) World Bank (2016)[21][22]
Rank Country/Territory Type
1 Qatar Oil & Gas
— Macau Tax haven (Sink OFC)
2 Luxembourg Top 10 Tax haven (Sink OFC)
3 Singapore Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)
4 Brunei Oil & Gas
5 Ireland Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)
6 Norway Oil & Gas
7 Kuwait Oil & Gas
8 United Arab Emirates Oil & Gas
9  Switzerland Top 10 Tax Haven (Conduit OFC)
— Hong Kong Top 10 Tax Haven (Sink OFC)
10 San Marino Tax haven (Sink OFC)
11 United States 59,495
12 Saudi Arabia Oil & Gas
13 Netherlands Top 10 Tax Haven (Conduit OFC)
14 Iceland 52,150
15 Bahrain Oil & Gas
Rank Country/Territory Type
1 Qatar Oil & Gas
2 Luxembourg Top 10 Tax haven (Sink OFC)
— Macau Tax haven (Sink OFC)
3 Singapore Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)
4 Brunei Oil & Gas
5 United Arab Emirates Oil & Gas
6 Ireland Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)
7  Switzerland Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)
8 Norway Oil & Gas
— Hong Kong Top 10 Tax haven (Sink OFC)
9 United States 57,467
10 Saudi Arabia Oil & Gas
11 Iceland 51,399
12 Netherlands Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)
13 Austria 50,078
14 Denmark 49,496
15 Sweden 49,175

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ There have been no exclusive estimates for the world average by the IMF. 2023 calculations are based on the global GDP (PPP), and population estimates by the IMF.[1]
  2. ↑ The following countries are from 2022 data: San Marino and U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. ↑ The following countries are from 2022 data: San Marino and U.S. Virgin Islands

References

  1. ↑ "World Economic Outlook Database, April 2024". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
  2. ↑ "Sarkozy attacks focus on economic growth (French president urges more emphasis on quality of life)", The Guardian, 14 September 2009.
  3. ↑ "Home | Committees | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu.
  4. ↑ "Explaining the Shadow Economy in Europe: Size, Causes and Policy Options". International Monetary Fund. November 2019.
  5. ↑ "Sizing Up Black Markets and Red-Light Districts for G.D.P." The New York Times. 9 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "GDP to include illegal activity". Financier Worldwide Magazine. August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Handbook on the compilation of statistics on illegal economic activities in national accounts and balance of payments". Eurostat. 6 March 2018.
  8. ↑ "Data Explorer". data.imf.org.
  9. ↑ "GDP per capita, current prices - Purchasing power parity; international dollars per capita". IMF.org. International Monetary Fund. 14 October 2025. Retrieved 14 September 2026.
  10. ↑ "WEO Database, October April. Report for Selected Countries and Subjects: World, E.U." IMF.org. International Monetary Fund. 22 April 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  11. ↑ "GDP per capita, PPP (current international $)". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  12. 1 2 "Country Comparisons - Real GDP per capita". CIA.gov. The World Factbook. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  13. ↑ "The World Factbook - European Union". CIA.gov. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  14. ↑ "The World Factbook - World". CIA.gov. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  15. "IMF DataMapper / Datasets / World Economic Outlook (October 2024) / Population". IMF.org. International Monetary Fund. 22 October 2024. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  16. ↑ "How tax havens turn economic statistics into nonsense". Quartz. 11 June 2018.
  17. ↑ Dharmapala, Dhammika; Hines, James R. Jr. (2009). "Which Countries Become Tax Havens?" (PDF). Journal of Public Economics. 93 (9–10): 1058–1068. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.07.005. S2CID 16653726. The paper implicitly adopts the "smaller" tax haven approach, i.e., disregarding larger countries that have either low taxes rates (for example, Russia), or systems of taxation which permit them to be used to structure tax avoidance schemes (for example, the United Kingdom). It also excludes non-sovereign tax havens (for example, Delaware or Labuan).
  18. 1 2 "Piercing the Veil, Finance & Development, June 2018, Vol. 55, No. 2". IMF Finance & Development. June 2018.
  19. ↑ "Ireland Exports its Leprechaun". Council on Foreign Relations. 11 May 2018.
  20. ↑ "The Irish National Accounts: Towards some do's and don'ts". irisheconomy.ie. 13 July 2016.
  21. ↑ "PPP (current international $)". data.worldbank.org. World Bank. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  22. ↑ "World Bank, International Comparison Program database". Retrieved 10 April 2018.
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