List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita

 ( Gdp Per Capita ) 

in 2025

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]] 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.

In 2023, the estimated average GDP per capita (PPP) of all of the countries was Int$22,452. For rankings regarding wealth, see list of countries by wealth per adult.

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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 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 often considered one of the indicators of a country's standard of living, "Sarkozy attacks focus on economic growth (French president urges more emphasis on quality of life)", The Guardian, 14 September 2009. "Alternative progress indicators to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a means towards sustainable development" although this can be problematic because GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income. ( See .)

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.

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Table All figures are in current international dollars, and Rounding to the nearest Integer.

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 (Nominal price international dollar) by country or
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Footnotes

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Expanding the coverage of illegal economic activities in Euro area national accounts The share of the shadow economy is significant in many European countries, ranging from less than 10 to over 40 per cent of GDP. Since 2014, EU member states have been encouraged by Eurostat, the official statistics body, to include some illegal activities.

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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. It is estimated that over 15% of global jurisdictions are tax havens (see tax haven lists). 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). 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.

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.

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)
{ class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:left" ! data-sort-type="number"	Rank ! Country/Territory ! Type
Oil & Gas
Tax haven (Sink OFC)
Top 10 Tax haven (Sink OFC)
Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)
Oil & Gas
Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)
Oil & Gas
Oil & Gas
Oil & Gas
Top 10 Tax Haven (Conduit OFC)
Top 10 Tax Haven (Sink OFC)
Tax haven (Sink OFC)
59,495
Oil & Gas
Top 10 Tax Haven (Conduit OFC)
52,150
Oil & Gas

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Oil & Gas

Top 10 Tax haven (Sink OFC)

Tax haven (Sink OFC)

Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)

Oil & Gas

Oil & Gas

Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)

Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)

Oil & Gas

Top 10 Tax haven (Sink OFC)

57,467

Oil & Gas

51,399

Top 10 Tax haven (Conduit OFC)

50,078

49,496

49,175

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See also

• List of countries by GDP (PPP)
• List of countries by GNI (PPP) per capita
• Real income
• List of countries by past and projected GDP (PPP) per capita
• List of countries by GDP (nominal)
• List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
• List of countries by real GDP per capita growth
• Quality of life
• Big Mac Index
• Government spending

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Notes

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External links

• IMF DataMapper

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