GDP per Head

GDP per head, a mere $4, 000, is not even one-tenth that of the U. S. and ranks around 100th place in the world.

Despite India's two decades of rapid growth, Uttar Pradesh's GDP per head is close to that of Kenya.

Yet China's GDP per head, at purchasing power parity, is still about a fifth that of the US.

The richest country in South Asia in terms of GDP per head, the Maldives has widespread internet access, in Male at least.

S. Its GDP per head is one fourteenth of the U. S. , roughly half that of Kazakhstan, according to the World Bank.

Since 2000, world GDP per head has grown by an average of 3. 2% a year, thanks to the acceleration in emerging economies.

In Central America, Panama is about to overtake Costa Rica in terms of GDP per head (and already has in purchasing-power terms).

Over the past 25 years, in terms of GDP per head at current exchange rates, the French have dropped from seventh place in the world to 17th.

And America's population is growing smartly, so GDP per head has grown a good deal more sluggishly than GDP as a whole.

Another goal was to double GDP per head from its level in 2000. This happened within the plan's first couple of years.

But Australia has also had one of the biggest increases in population; its GDP per head has grown no faster than Japan's over this period.

But it is no better than what happens when GDP per head grows by the same amount.

Our interactive map presents country equivalents for India's states and territories in terms of GDP, GDP per head and population.

The IMF forecasts that Germany will also have the fastest growth in GDP per head over the next five years.

Steady economic expansion for the past 14 years has pushed its GDP per head above that of France and Germany.

Between 1870 and 1913 world GDP per head increased by an average of only 1. 3% a year.

It is the third-poorest country in mainland Latin America in terms of GDP per head, and is heavily reliant on foreign help.

The retailers' association, Confcommercio, reckons that real GDP per head will not return to its pre-crisis level until 2019.

The scandal was that Africa's real GDP per head fell for so many years.

In 1998 Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand saw their real GDP per head shrink by an average of 11%.

Using growth in GDP per head rather than crude GDP growth reveals a strikingly different picture of other countries' economic health.

Spain has just overtaken Italy by the measure of GDP per head, say the statisticians. Italy's competitive sparkle has dimmed.

Since the average GDP per head of the high-income countries was $27, 000, the catch-up potential remains enormous.

GDP per head in Germany's five poorest states (all in the east) fell by slightly less during the downturn than in the five richest.

But this spectacular convergence went into reverse: by 2010, Japan's GDP per head had fallen to 76 per cent of US levels.

Its GDP per head is ahead of Portugal, a shade behind Greece and five times bigger than its neighbour Egypt (see chart).

"When a country's GDP per head reaches US$3, 000, its citizens will have [demand for] art investments, " says the spokesman.

At this rate, officials beam, Spain will surpass Italy in terms of GDP per head by 2009.

Collectively these countries match the average GDP per head of the BRICs.

Studies by Polity, a US research group, show that as GDP per head rises, states move towards democracy.

America's GDP per head is higher than France's, but the French spend less time at work, so are they really worse off?

Its GDP per head is less than a third of the average for the 15 pre-2004 members of the EU.

Mr Tao, at Credit Suisse, says these sentiments are valid given China's still low GDP per head.

There are several other reasons Americans can quibble over the use of GDP per head, especially with reference to Japan.

Relative to the US, its GDP per head is where Japan's was in 1950, before a quarter century of further rapid growth.

Still, don't hold out too long: even before the credit crunch hit, Michigan's GDP per head was falling in real terms.

Americans would still be much richer, of course, with a GDP per head more than four times that in China.

The poorest province, Guizhou, has a GDP per head of $280, on a par with Bangladesh or Yemen.

Panama will soon overtake Costa Rica and Venezuela in GDP per head.

By contrast, in 2001, despite much talk of "the mother of all recessions " , global GDP per head expanded by around 1%.

China's torrid growth puts it on course to hit the $16, 740 GDP-per-head threshold by 2015, well ahead of the likes of Brazil and India.

At last count, the IMF reckoned that the country's GDP per head was $18, 000, about seven times higher than Egypt's.

Indonesia's population is 562 times larger than that of Brunei, and developed Singapore's GDP per head is 150 times that of Burma.

The average Italian was worse off in 2010 than in 2000: GDP per head fell over the decade (see chart).

The study suggests that shifting tax revenues from income to consumption and property taxes could have a significant impact on GDP per head.

They also look cheap relative to GDP per head.

Its GDP per head has risen from a mere 3 per cent of US levels in 1978 to close to 20 per cent in 2009.

The ratio of GDP per head in the three richest regions to the three poorest increased by almost a tenth between 1990 and 2009.

In each of the down turns in 1975, 1982 and 1991, growth in world GDP per head turned negative.

In fact GDP per head in Italy actually fell.

Vietnam has prospered as a result. GDP per head was below $100 in 1990 but is now well over $1, 000, says the World Bank.

Slovakia's GDP per head (at purchasing-power parity) is $23, 000, compared with Greece's $27, 000.

For example, the United States' total GDP is 60 times larger than Norway's, but its GDP per head is slightly less.

The most important part of the answer is that even in 2002, China's GDP per head, at PPP, was just $4, 000, while India's was $2, 800.

Germany is also the only G7 country where GDP per head last year was back above its 2007 level.

within ten years half of all the states, including Florida, Michigan and Ohio, could have a GDP per head lower than Shanghai and Beijing.

Macau's GDP per head is ahead of its nearest equivalent Qatar by a long shot, while Hong Kong is comparable with Singapore.