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DEFINITION:
This entry gives the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. A nation's GDP at offical exchange rates (OER) is the home-currency-denominated annual GDP figure divided by the bilateral average US exchange rate with that country in that year. The measure is simple to compute and gives a precise measure of the value of output. Many economists prefer this measure when gauging the economic power an economy maintains vis-a-vis its neighbors, judging that an exchange rate captures the purchasing power a nation enjoys in the international marketplace. Official exchange rates, however, can be artifically fixed and/or subject to manipulation - resulting in claims of the country having an under- or over-valued currency - and are not necessarily the equivalent of a market-determined exchange rate. Moreover, even if the official exchange rate is market-determined, market exchange rates are frequently established by a relatively small set of goods and services (the ones the country trades) and may not capture the value of the larger set of goods the country produces. Furthermore, OER-converted GDP is not well suited to comparing domestic GDP over time, since appreciation/depreciation from one year to the next will make the OER GDP value rise/fall regardless of whether home-currency-denominated GDP changed. Per capita figures expressed per 1 population.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Qatar | $74,562.51 per capita | 2010 | ||
2 | Singapore | $46,073.24 per capita | 2010 | ||
3 | Australia | $44,474.51 per capita | 2007 | ||
4 | Kuwait | $42,857.14 per capita | 2010 | ||
5 | Hong Kong | $31,912.20 per capita | 2010 | ||
6 | Macau | $30,879.39 per capita | 2006 | ||
7 | Brunei | $29,974.94 per capita | 2010 | ||
8 | The Bahamas | $21,547.17 per capita | 2007 | ||
9 | Equatorial Guinea | $20,785.71 per capita | 2010 | ||
10 | Oman | $19,962.18 per capita | 2010 | ||
11 | Bahrain | $17,218.70 per capita | 2010 | ||
12 | Trinidad and Tobago | $16,088.47 per capita | 2010 | ||
13 | Saudi Arabia | $16,007.68 per capita | 2010 | ||
14 | New Caledonia | $14,619.62 per capita | 2003 | ||
15 | Barbados | $14,516.48 per capita | 2010 | ||
16 | Antigua and Barbuda | $12,348.32 per capita | 2010 | ||
17 | Libya | $12,259.64 per capita | 2010 | ||
18 | Seychelles | $10,621.21 per capita | 2010 | ||
19 | Brazil | $10,611.71 per capita | 2010 | ||
20 | Venezuela | $9,084.09 per capita | 2007 | ||
21 | Cook Islands | $8,565.55 per capita | 2005 | ||
22 | Gabon | $8,345.51 per capita | 2010 | ||
23 | Mexico | $8,218.88 per capita | 2007 | ||
24 | Panama | $7,986.35 per capita | 2010 | ||
25 | Malaysia | $7,944.62 per capita | 2010 | ||
26 | Costa Rica | $7,673.87 per capita | 2010 | ||
27 | Mauritius | $7,359.52 per capita | 2010 | ||
28 | Botswana | $6,944.07 per capita | 2010 | ||
29 | Suriname | $6,280.00 per capita | 2010 | ||
30 | Grenada | $6,201.92 per capita | 2010 | ||
31 | Saint Lucia | $6,005.07 per capita | 2010 | ||
32 | Dominica | $5,514.71 per capita | 2010 | ||
33 | Dominican Republic | $5,423.92 per capita | 2010 | ||
34 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | $5,348.62 per capita | 2010 | ||
35 | Cuba | $5,114.24 per capita | 2010 | ||
36 | Jamaica | $5,077.93 per capita | 2010 | ||
37 | Niue | $4,666.67 per capita | 2003 | ||
38 | Thailand | $4,662.82 per capita | 2010 | ||
39 | Maldives | $4,516.52 per capita | 2010 | ||
40 | Angola | $4,496.91 per capita | 2010 | ||
41 | Belize | $4,327.67 per capita | 2007 | ||
42 | Ecuador | $3,949.15 per capita | 2010 | ||
43 | Algeria | $3,948.01 per capita | 2007 | ||
44 | Colombia | $3,866.64 per capita | 2007 | ||
45 | Fiji | $3,663.18 per capita | 2010 | ||
46 | El Salvador | $3,520.10 per capita | 2010 | ||
47 | Cape Verde | $3,199.92 per capita | 2010 | ||
48 | Samoa | $2,940.67 per capita | 2010 | ||
49 | Indonesia | $2,926.04 per capita | 2010 | ||
50 | Tonga | $2,894.23 per capita | 2010 | ||
51 | Guatemala | $2,838.81 per capita | 2010 | ||
52 | Guyana | $2,799.10 per capita | 2010 | ||
53 | Paraguay | $2,756.02 per capita | 2010 | ||
54 | Swaziland | $2,668.63 per capita | 2010 | ||
55 | Iraq | $2,656.61 per capita | 2010 | ||
56 | Marshall Islands | $2,559.60 per capita | 2008 | ||
57 | Sri Lanka | $2,333.93 per capita | 2010 | ||
58 | Philippines | $2,007.16 per capita | 2010 | ||
59 | Bolivia | $1,839.61 per capita | 2010 | ||
60 | Honduras | $1,640.89 per capita | 2007 | ||
61 | Egypt | $1,592.08 per capita | 2007 | ||
62 | Kiribati | $1,520.00 per capita | 2010 | ||
63 | Sudan | $1,513.82 per capita | 2010 | ||
64 | Papua New Guinea | $1,314.19 per capita | 2010 | ||
65 | Nigeria | $1,304.73 per capita | 2010 | ||
66 | Djibouti | $1,281.21 per capita | 2010 | ||
67 | Solomon Islands | $1,270.10 per capita | 2010 | ||
68 | Zambia | $1,202.62 per capita | 2010 | ||
69 | Cote d'Ivoire | $1,133.85 per capita | 2010 | ||
70 | Cameroon | $1,127.48 per capita | 2010 | ||
71 | Nicaragua | $1,101.42 per capita | 2010 | ||
72 | Senegal | $1,018.18 per capita | 2010 | ||
73 | Laos | $1,017.78 per capita | 2010 | ||
74 | Mauritania | $1,007.51 per capita | 2010 | ||
75 | Yemen | $974.34 per capita | 2007 | ||
76 | India | $972.68 per capita | 2007 | ||
77 | Pakistan | $872.88 per capita | 2007 | ||
78 | Vietnam | $821.23 per capita | 2007 | ||
79 | Kenya | $793.74 per capita | 2007 | ||
80 | Ghana | $745.25 per capita | 2010 | ||
81 | Benin | $739.75 per capita | 2010 | ||
82 | Chad | $676.23 per capita | 2010 | ||
83 | Haiti | $644.01 per capita | 2010 | ||
84 | Comoros | $621.29 per capita | 2007 | ||
85 | Cambodia | $614.75 per capita | 2007 | ||
86 | Mali | $562.30 per capita | 2007 | ||
87 | Burkina Faso | $551.27 per capita | 2010 | ||
88 | Guinea-Bissau | $544.55 per capita | 2010 | ||
89 | Uganda | $538.37 per capita | 2010 | ||
90 | Tanzania | $519.36 per capita | 2010 | ||
91 | Togo | $509.95 per capita | 2010 | ||
92 | Bangladesh | $481.36 per capita | 2007 | ||
93 | Mozambique | $455.46 per capita | 2010 | ||
94 | Zimbabwe | $443.40 per capita | 2010 | ||
95 | Guinea | $435.18 per capita | 2010 | ||
96 | Eritrea | $429.01 per capita | 2010 | ||
97 | Madagascar | $402.14 per capita | 2010 | ||
98 | Ethiopia | $389.40 per capita | 2010 | ||
99 | Malawi | $337.90 per capita | 2010 | ||
100 | Sierra Leone | $323.96 per capita | 2010 | ||
101 | Niger | $323.69 per capita | 2007 | ||
102 | Burma | $285.60 per capita | 2007 | ||
103 | Somalia | $254.21 per capita | 2010 | ||
104 | Liberia | $244.62 per capita | 2010 | ||
105 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | $191.01 per capita | 2010 |
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