GDP-per-person

REGIONAL inequality, as measured by the differences in GDP per person across a country, is often huge.

How much a country's leader is paid compared to GDP per person?

GDP per person of working age rose at more than double the rate of Germany, faster than Britain and close to that of the US.

The most popular, by a distance, showed the ratio of the salary of a country's leader to its GDP per person.

The top chart shows a strong positive relationship between the dollar price of a Big Mac and GDP per person.

China is still a poor, developing country, whose GDP per person is less than one-tenth of America's or Japan's.

The map below presents country equivalents for India's states and territories in terms of GDP, GDP per person (in PPP terms) and population.

However, the relationship between prices and GDP per person can perhaps be used to estimate the current fair value of a currency.

FOR all its faults, GDP per person is still the measure that gives the best indicator of economic progress or lack thereof.

Rapid population growth, however, means that, measured by GDP per person, one of the world's poorest countries will hardly get any richer.

The average unionized employee at SC First Bank earns the equivalent of $65, 000 a year, around three times GDP per person.

Select among GDP, GDP per person, population, and exports. There's a similar interactive for the United States.

The map below presents country equivalents for every state in terms of GDP, GDP per person and population.

On average, GDP per person falls by more than 9% from its peak and takes almost two years to reach bottom.

In a country as poor as Malawi, with average GDP per person of $350, it is hard to keep up the momentum of mass protests.

But GDP per person is a similarly imperfect measure: a bigger pie does not necessarily mean bigger slices for everyone.

And income growth is faster among the poorest (comparable to China's GDP per person growth rates).

The interactive version of this map includes equivalents for GDP per person, population and exports.

More worryingly, his salary would be some 240 times greater than the country's GDP per person (measured on a purchasing-power parity basis).

An economist's simplest answer is the gross domestic product, or GDP, per person of each country.

In the United States over the past century, average income as measured by real GDP per person has grown by about 2 percent per year.

People should not mind, though. What matters for economic welfare is GDP per person.

Yet if judged by growth in GDP per person over the same period, then Japan has outperformed America and the euro zone (see chart 1).

Living standards, as measured by real GDP per person, vary significantly among nations.

The top chart shows the "line of best fit" between Big Mac prices and GDP per person for 48 countries.

That matters because a better gauge of prosperity is not growth in GDP, but growth in GDP per person or average income.

Focusing on GDP per person also affects comparisons of economic health over time.

Yet unemployment is three times as high as on the mainland, and GDP per person just over half as big.

Growth in GDP per person in the past decade has been slower than in France and well below that in Britain or America.

Over the past decade GDP per person has almost doubled, to almost $12, 000 at purchasing-power parity.

GDP per person is therefore a better measure of relative performance.

The crucial question is therefore what the effect of demographic decline is on the growth of GDP per person.

In 2005, the commission found, France's real GDP per person was 73% of America's.

The gap in living standards has shrunk: GDP per person in the east has risen from 40% of west German levels in 1991 to nearly 70% in 2008.

Over the past 25 years French GDP per person has declined from seventh-highest in the world to 17th.

He is paid more than 40 times the city-state's GDP per person.

In terms of GDP per person, for example, Indonesia is much richer than Vietnam.

China was already a lower-middle-income country last year, with a GDP per person of around $4, 400.

Most developing countries find that when GDP per person reaches about $5, 000, motorcycle sales begin to decline as people switch to cars.