Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Economy > GDP > Official exchange rate > Per capita
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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.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Equatorial Guinea | $20,785.71 per capita | 2010 | ||
2 | Seychelles | $10,621.21 per capita | 2010 | ||
3 | Gabon | $8,345.51 per capita | 2010 | ||
4 | Mauritius | $7,359.52 per capita | 2010 | ||
5 | South Africa | $7,089.23 per capita | 2010 | ||
6 | Botswana | $6,944.07 per capita | 2010 | ||
7 | Namibia | $5,015.33 per capita | 2010 | ||
8 | Angola | $4,496.91 per capita | 2010 | ||
9 | Cape Verde | $3,199.92 per capita | 2010 | ||
10 | Swaziland | $2,668.63 per capita | 2010 | ||
11 | Sudan | $1,513.82 per capita | 2010 | ||
12 | Nigeria | $1,304.73 per capita | 2010 | ||
13 | Djibouti | $1,281.21 per capita | 2010 | ||
14 | Zambia | $1,202.62 per capita | 2010 | ||
15 | Cote d'Ivoire | $1,133.85 per capita | 2010 | ||
16 | Sao Tome and Principe | $1,133.33 per capita | 2010 | ||
17 | Cameroon | $1,127.48 per capita | 2010 | ||
18 | Senegal | $1,018.18 per capita | 2010 | ||
19 | Mauritania | $1,007.51 per capita | 2010 | ||
20 | Lesotho | $828.65 per capita | 2010 | ||
21 | Kenya | $793.74 per capita | 2007 | ||
22 | Ghana | $745.25 per capita | 2010 | ||
23 | Benin | $739.75 per capita | 2010 | ||
24 | Chad | $676.23 per capita | 2010 | ||
25 | Comoros | $621.29 per capita | 2007 | ||
26 | The Gambia | $601.85 per capita | 2010 | ||
27 | Mali | $562.30 per capita | 2007 | ||
28 | Burkina Faso | $551.27 per capita | 2010 | ||
29 | Rwanda | $546.73 per capita | 2010 | ||
30 | Guinea-Bissau | $544.55 per capita | 2010 | ||
31 | Uganda | $538.37 per capita | 2010 | ||
32 | Tanzania | $519.36 per capita | 2010 | ||
33 | Togo | $509.95 per capita | 2010 | ||
34 | Central African Republic | $480.12 per capita | 2010 | ||
35 | Mozambique | $455.46 per capita | 2010 | ||
36 | Zimbabwe | $443.40 per capita | 2010 | ||
37 | Guinea | $435.18 per capita | 2010 | ||
38 | Eritrea | $429.01 per capita | 2010 | ||
39 | Madagascar | $402.14 per capita | 2010 | ||
40 | Ethiopia | $389.40 per capita | 2010 | ||
41 | Malawi | $337.90 per capita | 2010 | ||
42 | Sierra Leone | $323.96 per capita | 2010 | ||
43 | Niger | $323.69 per capita | 2007 | ||
44 | Somalia | $254.21 per capita | 2010 | ||
45 | Liberia | $244.62 per capita | 2010 | ||
46 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | $191.01 per capita | 2010 | ||
47 | Burundi | $175.24 per capita | 2010 |