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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 | Liechtenstein | $147,254.91 per capita | 2008 | ||
2 | Luxembourg | $104,421.43 per capita | 2010 | ||
3 | Ireland | $62,933.70 per capita | 2007 | ||
4 | Austria | $45,598.77 per capita | 2007 | ||
5 | British Virgin Islands | $38,811.89 per capita | 2008 | ||
6 | Spain | $35,576.38 per capita | 2007 | ||
7 | France | $35,240.62 per capita | 2006 | ||
8 | Italy | $33,599.20 per capita | 2010 | ||
9 | Aruba | $22,512.46 per capita | 2005 | ||
10 | Portugal | $20,981.25 per capita | 2007 | ||
11 | Equatorial Guinea | $20,785.71 per capita | 2010 | ||
12 | Slovakia | $16,264.13 per capita | 2010 | ||
13 | Poland | $12,307.90 per capita | 2010 | ||
14 | Croatia | $11,430.32 per capita | 2007 | ||
15 | Lithuania | $10,725.96 per capita | 2007 | ||
16 | Seychelles | $10,621.21 per capita | 2010 | ||
17 | Brazil | $10,611.71 per capita | 2010 | ||
18 | Chile | $10,058.50 per capita | 2007 | ||
19 | Venezuela | $9,084.09 per capita | 2007 | ||
20 | Argentina | $8,755.00 per capita | 2010 | ||
21 | Mexico | $8,218.88 per capita | 2007 | ||
22 | Panama | $7,986.35 per capita | 2010 | ||
23 | Palau | $7,775.09 per capita | 2008 | ||
24 | Costa Rica | $7,673.87 per capita | 2010 | ||
25 | Dominica | $5,514.71 per capita | 2010 | ||
26 | Peru | $5,210.11 per capita | 2010 | ||
27 | Cuba | $5,114.24 per capita | 2010 | ||
28 | Ecuador | $3,949.15 per capita | 2010 | ||
29 | Colombia | $3,866.64 per capita | 2007 | ||
30 | Cape Verde | $3,199.92 per capita | 2010 | ||
31 | Guatemala | $2,838.81 per capita | 2010 | ||
32 | Paraguay | $2,756.02 per capita | 2010 | ||
33 | Philippines | $2,007.16 per capita | 2010 | ||
34 | Bolivia | $1,839.61 per capita | 2010 | ||
35 | Cote d'Ivoire | $1,133.85 per capita | 2010 | ||
36 | Haiti | $644.01 per capita | 2010 | ||
37 | East Timor | $548.04 per capita | 2010 | ||
38 | Eritrea | $429.01 per capita | 2010 | ||
39 | Burundi | $175.24 per capita | 2010 |