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List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita

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List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita

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Countries or territories by GDP (nominal) per capita in 2024

]] 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. 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. 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.

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 article: Corporate haven#GDP-per-capita tax haven proxy, 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.

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.

Country/TerritoryIMF
(2025)World Bank
(2022–24)United Nations
(2023)World}}14,21713,67313,097
uspeft288,004256,581
uspeft231,713207,973207,150
uspeft146,818137,516128,936
uspeft142,855125,842
uspeft129,132107,316106,106
uspeft111,047103,670100,831
uspeft98,15082,70480,827
uspeft97,75097,583
uspeft94,48190,67486,616
uspeft91,88486,81087,932
uspeft89,59985,81080,706
uspeft88,329
uspeft76,58171,85268,440
uspeft74,92173,04764,158
uspeft74,589
uspeft74,120
uspeft73,17468,21963,803
uspeft71,44176,27671,499
uspeft65,94664,40867,129
uspeft65,26954,26558,917
uspeft62,03657,72355,439
uspeft61,69456,83356,042
uspeft60,41855,72355,049
uspeft60,00954,17755,488
uspeft59,92555,80053,528
uspeft58,49954,374
uspeft56,84454,10751,166
uspeft56,66152,63749,224
uspeft56,08453,18952,762
uspeft54,93554,28354,517
uspeft51,34849,37848,311
uspeft49,45149,30446,812
uspeft49,38348,74748,750
uspeft49,27742,34741,676
uspeft48,98246,15044,451
uspeft46,80543,145
uspeft44,321
uspeft43,16140,22638,672
uspeft42,41338,65437,077
uspeft41,833
uspeft40,02839,237
uspeft39,85439,28536,367
uspeft39,72639,35535,896
uspeft39,60633,98533,802
uspeft38,627
uspeft38,04035,29833,814
uspeft37,826
uspeft37,17834,08932,642
uspeft37,02033,41832,963
uspeft35,96233,12135,538
uspeft35,23132,09432,094
uspeft35,16131,70731,750
uspeft34,71332,47633,806
uspeft34,04131,17030,201
uspeft33,51634,981
uspeft32,98229,38627,956
uspeft31,41528,84427,718
uspeft31,37829,88420,189
uspeft30,80533,73033,832
uspeft30,34930,349
uspeft29,25330,04828,453
uspeft28,850
uspeft28,52426,14824,086
uspeft28,48525,02320,876
uspeft27,17024,75223,772
uspeft26,95823,93221,661
uspeft25,92725,36523,804
uspeft25,91623,31021,954
uspeft25,750
uspeft25,63023,36722,444
uspeft24,38023,90722,796
uspeft23,786
uspeft22,77422,759
uspeft22,43620,07218,348
uspeft22,31423,72621,787
uspeft22,19217,697
uspeft22,15822,77122,625
uspeft21,95617,85916,735
uspeft21,668
uspeft20,42617,41215,068
uspeft19,80219,10318,701
uspeft19,45615,89915,899
uspeft19,11920,24820,972
uspeft19,10418,58716,942
uspeft18,68413,21512,530
uspeft18,329
uspeft18,19815,47312,814
uspeft18,197
uspeft18,12119,31516,960
uspeft18,018
uspeft17,44614,88913,809
uspeft17,18116,71017,068
uspeft15,32213,52411,101
uspeft14,98612,93611,885
uspeft14,72314,00513,000
uspeft14,64714,18213,555
uspeft14,35913,85814,187
uspeft14,27413,42214,812
uspeft13,96714,15713,826
uspeft13,90111,86711,377
uspeft13,80613,30312,509
uspeft13,09911,87211,304
uspeft12,54411,87211,246
uspeft11,91910,87610,718
uspeft11,13211,50110,767
uspeft11,10810,0128,172
uspeft10,8018,5728,132
uspeft10,57810,28010,378
uspeft10,3789,3108,606
uspeft10,1268,2849,194
uspeft9,94410,4059,786
uspeft9,6488,9578,639
uspeft9,4358,3167,883
uspeft9,3038,2198,071
uspeft9,2568,4527,907
uspeft8,9698,5018,228
uspeft8,4057,0206,840
uspeft8,2877,4676,952
uspeft8,2497,9146,948
uspeft8,2397,6185,393
uspeft8,2296,7456,558
uspeft8,0337,2996,157
uspeft7,9427,3457,182
uspeft7,8978,4307,489
uspeft7,3657,2847,012
uspeft7,2106,8756,610
uspeft7,0056,6925,790
uspeft6,9437,6957,820
uspeft6,8666,3186,027
uspeft6,8437,4315,976
uspeft6,8256,2885,889
uspeft6,7996,4166,276
uspeft6,6676,2535,976
uspeft6,4786,1505,763
uspeft6,3825,3904,737
uspeft6,0955,6315,364
uspeft5,9214,8644,859
uspeft5,8874,8994,765
uspeft5,8326,0745,149
uspeft5,8306,3456,880
uspeft5,7445,5805,391
uspeft5,6715,2734,961
uspeft5,282 (2024)3,4784,757
uspeft5,2414,1664,084
uspeft5,0744,9254,876
uspeft4,9084,4564,442
uspeft4,8164,4134,168
uspeft4,7633,9933,830
uspeft4,7524,3503,979
uspeft4,7454,7174,282
uspeft4,5854,0013,686
uspeft4,4103,9363,717
uspeft4,3693,4973,469
uspeft4,325 (2024)4,5163,673
uspeft4,3213,9853,805
uspeft4,2853,8393,839
uspeft4,0744,7714,432
uspeft4,0613,2452,963
uspeft3,6473,1622,549
uspeft3,6373,4263,232
uspeft3,1932,4052,260
uspeft3,1913,3392,895
uspeft3,1333,5433,492
uspeft3,1034,925
uspeft3,0162,7102,528
uspeft2,9532,8482,613
uspeft2,9312,1222,464
uspeft2,8182,6972,487
uspeft2,8122,6272,458
uspeft2,7902,4191,977
uspeft2,7342,5932,464
uspeft2,6562,6561,858
uspeft2,5822,1212,121
uspeft2,5553,0762,986
uspeft2,5492,2061,952
uspeft2,4812,2882,178
uspeft2,4612,1421,705
uspeft2,443 (2024)2,5923,640
uspeft2,4202,4822,291
uspeft2,3862,1492,042
uspeft2,1742,1241,958
uspeft2,0271,7621,737
uspeft1,9211,7441,682
uspeft1,7731,7841,703
uspeft1,7411,7171,597
uspeft1,7071,4841,212
uspeft1,6441,3411,161
uspeft1,6351,4851,394
uspeft1,5351,4471,363
uspeft1,5081,3431,503
uspeft1,3531,0721,049
uspeft1,3531,2351,331
uspeft1,3021,1851,209
uspeft1,2251,374
uspeft1,225963855
uspeft1,2008071,646
uspeft1,1391,016913
uspeft1,1201,043997
uspeft1,115987883
uspeft1,0971,3591,147
uspeft1,0431,0001,010
uspeft1,0141,086833
uspeft1,001972916
uspeft9941,0111,241
uspeft980873758
uspeft904846917
uspeft890909890
uspeft8471,230
uspeft789723643
uspeft772647655
uspeft763637597
uspeft712989680
uspeft690647623
uspeft656
uspeft640
uspeft622602509
uspeft616545598
uspeft599516496
uspeft486154289
uspeft433222
uspeft417 (2024)414396
uspeft313403
Notes:

Notes

References

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