Nominal gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is the total value of a country's finished goods and services (gross domestic product) divided by its total population (per capita).

Gross domestic product per capita is often used as a proxy indicator of a country's standard of living; however, this is inaccurate because GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income and does not take into account social and environmental costs and benefits.French President seeks alternatives to GDP, The Guardian 14-09-2009.  Measures of personal income include average wage, real income, median income, disposable income and gross national income (GNI) per capita.

Comparisons of GDP per capita are also frequently made on the basis of purchasing power parity (PPP), to adjust for differences in the cost of living in different countries. PPP largely removes the exchange rate problem but not others; it does not reflect the value of economic output in international trade, and it also requires more estimation than GDP per capita. On the whole, PPP per capita figures are more narrowly spread than nominal GDP per capita figures.

GDP per capita does not consider differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results may vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency. Such fluctuations may change a country's ranking from one year to the next, while the standard of living of its population might not change by as much.

Several leading GDP-per-capita (nominal) jurisdictions may be considered tax havens, and their GDP data subject to material distortion by tax-planning activities. Examples include Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Ireland and Luxembourg.

Non-sovereign entities (the world, continents, and some dependent territories) and states with limited international recognition are included in the list in cases in which they appear in the sources. These economies are not ranked in the charts (except Kosovo and Taiwan) but are listed in sequence by GDP for comparison. Three UN members (Cuba, Monaco and North Korea) do not belong to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), hence their economies are not ranked. Kosovo is not a member of the United Nations but is a member of the IMF. Taiwan is not an IMF member but is listed in the official IMF indices.

Distorted GDP-per-capita for tax havens

Many of the leading GDP-per-capita (nominal) jurisdictions are tax havens whose economic data is artificially inflated by tax-driven corporate accounting entries. For instance, the Irish GDP data above is subject to material distortion by the tax planning activities of foreign multinationals in Ireland. To address this, in 2017 the Central Bank of Ireland created "modified GNI" (or GNI*) as a more appropriate statistic, and the OECD and IMF have adopted it for Ireland. 2015 Irish GDP is 143% of 2015 Irish GNI*.

Table All data are in current United States dollars. For historical data, see list of countries by past and projected GDP (nominal) per capita.

The table initially ranks each country or territory by its IMF estimate, and can be reranked by any of the sources.

+Nominal GDP (in USD) per capita by country, territory, non-sovereign state or non-IMF member Country/Territory IMF(2026) World Bank(2025) United Nations(2023-24), (Select all countries, "GDP, Per Capita GDP–US Dollars", and "2023-24" to generate the table), United Nations Statistics Division. Access date: 12 February 2023. 288,002 (2024) 288,002 226,809 220,167 (2024) 216,392 158,733 147,252 138,596 142,250 (2024) 136,766 140,186 131,593 109,874 126,177 114,769 104,973 110,048 98,324 84,450 107,758 98,814 93,853 105,877 94,594 86,717 104,293 (2024) 102,833 94,430 90,027 84,817 90,015 (2023) 83,445 76,970 71,021 79,918 73,684 66,649 76,446 75,902 68,680 75,648 65,130 68,528 74,586 (2023) 74,175 (2024) 70,676 63,133 57,028 70,187 59,871 (2023) 58,917 69,804 60,337 57,770 68,138 72,525 71,894 67,761 62,930 58,634 65,303 60,496 55,113 65,112 60,750 56,613 58,499 (2023) 62,078 61,056 57,602 53,313 60,305 55,698 57,120 60,130 56,149 53,174 59,640 56,983 54,871 54,214 50,274 (2024) 50,088 53,560 47,907 46,386 53,475 54,292 49,304 52,083 48,986 45,950 52,023 49,591 49,889 46,505 43,309 40,112 45,409 41,783 40,476 44,321 (2022) 42,978 38,515 42,862 38,591 (2024) 38,791 42,103 41,833 (2022) 41,563 38,627 35,958 40,892 39,455 (2024) 39,455 40,650 40,620 38,814 40,630 37,376 34,212 39,795 35,917 32,139 38,627 37,811 34,537 36,927 37,718 34,418 31,434 37,507 (2024) 37,760 37,412 36,227 36,262 36,545 32,959 29,684 36,288 32,235 33,418 35,703 35,951 32,534 35,434 32,082 30,049 33,167 32,414 29,670 33,164 32,312 32,471 31,336 28,420 23,734 31,269 31,242 28,544 25,746 30,161 30,030 27,104 23,911 29,696 26,948 25,592 29,569 30,597 29,314 29,213 (2024) 34,981 29,020 28,365 26,897 28,913 26,312 23,337 28,430 25,908 23,037 27,608 25,216 23,907 25,693 22,538 20,130 23,848 20,328 16,773 23,786 (2022) 9,605 (2020) 22,957 22,833 (2024) 19,200 22,448 24,819 23,060 22,440 (2024) 22,438 22,146 22,771 23,916 21,668 (2021) 21,645 19,947 20,825 21,571 19,532 17,513 20,564 19,790 19,103 20,299 19,970 18,587 20,240 17,995 16,710 19,464 14,615 13,379 19,018 18,599 15,127 18,616 18,967 17,001 18,525 17,547 15,007 18,451 18,018 (2022) 17,675 19,449 16,576 17,503 14,692 14,155 17,252 15,262 13,223 16,377 14,817 12,959 16,053 14,640 15,645 15,779 13,889 14,158 15,135 14,746 14,323 15,085 13,125 11,867 14,874 13,862 13,206 14,357 14,898 13,970 colspan=1 14,217 14,406 13,097 13,812 12,991 11,763 12,689 12,107 11,705 12,493 12,998 9,685 12,406 11,059 10,876 12,313 10,713 10,311 12,300 6,540 9,161 11,967 10,490 9,299 11,574 9,692 8,980 11,286 10,279 8,387 11,098 12,562 11,294 10,960 9,684 8,456 10,701 10,382 9,632 10,459 10,989 10,405 10,410 9,474 8,728 10,104 8,562 7,914 9,918 8,263 8,219 9,677 8,489 7,491 9,372 7,027 6,457 9,354 8,622 5,997 8,958 7,899 6,621 8,856 7,070 6,990 8,490 7,778 7,695 8,356 8,003 7,754 8,152 6,615 6,493 8,134 7,866 7,681 8,105 8,057 7,347 7,853 7,108 6,786 7,575 7,125 6,875 7,503 6,598 6,267 7,467 7,411 7,190 7,238 6,547 6,218 6,980 5,866 5,038 6,962 6,449 6,569 6,810 6,598 6,150 6,802 6,642 6,426 6,670 5,797 5,273 6,628 6,051 5,703 6,581 6,345 (2023) 5,851 6,455 5,873 5,749 6,443 (2025) 4,473 (2024) 6,543 6,333 5,148 3,756 6,196 5,767 5,580 5,677 5,410 6,074 5,601 5,348 4,618 5,573 4,876 4,413 5,514 4,414 5,058 5,362 5,060 4,925 5,115 5,066 4,717 5,107 4,673 4,217 4,516 (2024) 5,002 4,273 4,927 4,108 3,981 4,893 4,657 4,357 4,867 4,493 4,228 4,739 4,084 3,517 4,661 3,968 3,162 4,443 4,171 3,985 4,421 3,906 3,553 4,140 3,495 5,298 4,082 4,039 3,332 3,904 3,086 2,634 3,754 3,130 3,092 3,711 3,598 3,426 3,559 3,173 2,848 3,415 3,924 4,894 3,314 3,257 2,409 3,313 3,050 2,690 3,202 3,081 2,432 3,199 3,021 2,748 2,853 (2024) 3,171 3,640 3,079 2,694 1,705 3,051 2,559 2,178 3,033 2,198 2,121 2,911 2,597 2,464 2,902 2,872 2,603 2,813 2,703 2,724 2,714 2,363 1,952 2,632 3,020 2,986 2,554 2,515 2,291 2,403 2,325 1,958 2,258 2,086 2,042 2,125 1,972 1,737 2,054 1,955 1,682 1,951 2,056 1,703 1,939 1,637 1,161 1,848 1,877 1,597 1,831 1,318 1,331 1,809 1,658 1,394 1,696 (2025) 1,596 1,212 1,556 1,224 1,646 1,548 1,536 1,363 1,520 1,341 1,503 1,519 1,489 1,147 1,476 1,206 1,049 1,449 1,124 855 1,374 1,362 1,319 1,209 1,341 1,384 997 1,319 1,148 883 1,315 1,022 913 1,301 1,193 833 1,241 1,089 916 1,057 (2022) 1,230 1,198 1,124 1,010 1,122 807 655 1,081 933 1,241 964 915 917 953 919 890 919 846 758 864 1,165 680 822 775 643 813 661 597 733 672 509 688 (2011) 656 656 599 598 640 632 627 623 613 556 496 546 234 289 488 1,080 (2015) 403 448 (2025) 417 (2024) 396 384 634 (2018) 222 Notes: Data unavailable for the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, the Holy See (Vatican City), Jersey, Niue, the Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Tokelau, and Western Sahara. Nearly all country links in the table (except that of Zanzibar) take to articles titled "Income in country or territory" or to "Economy of country or territory".

See also List of countries by external debt List of countries by GDP (nominal) List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita List of countries by GNI (nominal) per capita List of countries by past and projected GDP (nominal) per capita List of countries by wealth per adult

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External links Chart of GDP per capita at current US$ prices by Google, World Bank data World Map and Chart of GDP per capita at current prices by Lebanese-economy-forum, World Bank data IMF DataMapper