List Of Countries By GDP (Nominal) Per Capita

Nominal gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is a metric that quantifies the total value of all finished goods and services produced within a country over a specific period, divided by its total population. It's a widely used, albeit imperfect, indicator of a nation's economic output on an individual level.

Standard of Living and Its Limitations

While often bandied about as a proxy for a country's standard of living, this interpretation is, frankly, a bit of a stretch. GDP per capita is not a direct measure of personal income. It doesn’t account for how wealth is distributed, nor does it factor in the often-invisible social and environmental costs and benefits that profoundly impact quality of life. For a more nuanced understanding of what individuals actually earn and have access to, one might look at measures like average wage, real income, median income, disposable income, or gross national income (GNI) per capita. These provide a slightly less abstract, though still incomplete, picture.

Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) Adjustments

To allow for more meaningful comparisons across different economies, GDP per capita figures are frequently adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP). This adjustment attempts to equalize the purchasing power of different currencies by accounting for the varying cost of living in different countries. While PPP helps mitigate the distortions caused by fluctuating exchange rates, it doesn't entirely eliminate other issues. For instance, it doesn't perfectly reflect the value of economic output in international trade and relies on more estimation than the raw nominal GDP per capita figures. Consequently, PPP per capita figures tend to be less spread out than their nominal counterparts.

Exchange Rate Volatility and Cost of Living

A significant drawback of nominal GDP per capita is its insensitivity to differences in the cost of living. This means that year-to-year fluctuations in a country's currency exchange rate can dramatically alter its ranking, even if the actual standard of living for its citizens hasn't changed all that much. It’s a bit like judging someone’s wealth based on their current pocket change rather than their overall assets.

Tax Havens and Distorted Data

One must also be wary of jurisdictions that appear exceptionally wealthy based on GDP per capita. Several leading entities on these lists are, in fact, tax havens. Their economic data can be significantly inflated by tax-planning activities, particularly by foreign multinational corporations. Places like Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, and Luxembourg are often cited examples where GDP figures don't accurately reflect domestic economic activity or the well-being of their residents. The Irish Central Bank, for instance, had to develop a new metric, "modified GNI" (GNI*), to better represent Ireland's economic reality due to such distortions. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) noted in 2018 that a staggering $12 trillion, nearly 40 percent of global foreign direct investment, was “artificial,” passing through corporate shells in well-known tax havens.

Inclusion of Non-Sovereign Entities

The list includes non-sovereign entities, such as dependent territories, and states with limited international recognition, provided they are featured in the source data. These are typically listed for comparative purposes and are not ranked in the main charts, with exceptions like Kosovo and Taiwan. Notably, some UN members, including Cuba, Monaco, and North Korea, are not part of the IMF, thus their economies are not included in these particular rankings.

Table of Nominal GDP (in USD) Per Capita

The following table presents nominal GDP per capita data in current United States dollars, drawing from estimates and data from the IMF, World Bank, and the United Nations. Historical data can be found in the list of countries by past and projected GDP (nominal) per capita.

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	1,000	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

Data for Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Sri Lanka are from 2024.
The European Union is included due to its unique status as more than a simple trade bloc. It possesses attributes of a state, including its own flag, anthem, currency (for some members), parliament, law-making abilities, and diplomatic representation. However, as an organization rather than a sovereign state, it is not ranked.
Data for Cyprus represent the area controlled by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus.
The IMF refers to Taiwan as the "Taiwan Province of China."
Figures for China exclude Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
Excludes Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Excludes data for Transnistria.
Figures exclude the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.
The IMF and World Bank use the designation "West Bank and Gaza."
The United Nations refers to the area as the "State of Palestine."
The UN figure excludes the autonomous region of Zanzibar.