GDP Per Capita Comparisons
Comments focus on debating and comparing GDP per capita figures across countries like the US, China, EU nations, and others, often discussing PPP adjustments, rankings, and relative wealth.
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GDP per capita is $8600 compared to USA $57000. It's all relative.
Which country ? If GDP per capita in your country is an order of magnitude less, I question your assertion
GDP PPP certainly doesn't get all the way, but it probably is more appropriate for this sort of comparison.
Many of those countries have 1/3 to 1/4 of the US GDP per capita. That has to count for something... ;)
GDP and population says otherwise.
Per capita GDP is quite a bit higher in the US, so that's not unexpected.
Their GDP (PPP) per capita is between a third and a fourth of the US GDP per capita. That's not a third world country.
i meant "GDP x population"; messed with the formatting.
I was comparing per-capita GDP PPP. On the table on Wikipedia, China is 73rd, but USA is 9th.
Everytime I look at it, the US in PPP per capita¹ is ~10th worldwide, ranking behind places like Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland. But well above the bulk of Europe including France, Germany.The problem when comparing is that the structure of a city-state like Luxembourg or Singapore has nothing to do with big countries; and even France or Germany are like 1/5th of the US in population, much less in area, so you can't compare much, certainly not the homogeneity.[1]: <a href="https