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Map of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita for the year 2006. Source: IMF (October 2007)

This article includes a list of countries of the world sorted by their Gross Domestic Product (nominal) per capita, the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year, divided by the average population for the same year.

The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results can 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 a great deal from one year to the next, even though they often make little or no difference to the standard of living of its population. Therefore these figures should be used with caution.

Comparisons of national wealth are also frequently made on the basis of purchasing power parity (PPP), to adjust for differences in the cost of living in different countries (See List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita). PPP largely removes the exchange rate problem, but has its own drawbacks. 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 GDP per capita figures.

Great care should be taken when using either set of figures to compare the wealth of two countries. Often people who wish to promote or denigrate a country will use the figure that suits their case best and ignore the other one, which may be substantially different, but a valid comparison of two economies should take both rankings into account, as well as utilising other economic data to put an economy in context.

The table below includes data for the year 2006 for all 180 members of the International Monetary Fund for which information is available (plus Republic of China (Taiwan), which is measured by the IMF despite its not being a member of the IMF). Data are in United States dollars. sovereign states are ranked (i.e. excl. EU and Hong Kong SAR).

Rank	Country	GDP (USD) per capita	Estimates start after
1	Luxembourg	87,955	2005
2	Norway	72,306	2005
3	Qatar	62,914	2005
4	Iceland	54,858	2005
5	Switzerland	51,771	2006
6	Denmark	50,965	2005
7	Ireland	44,500	2006
8	United States	44,190	2006
9	Sweden	42,383	2006
10	Netherlands	40,571	2006
11	Finland	40,197	2005
12	United Kingdom	39,213	2005
13	Austria	38,961	2006
14	Canada	38,951	2006
15	Belgium	37,214	2006
16	Australia	36,553	2004
17	France	35,404	2006
18	Germany	35,204	2006
19	Japan	34,188	2005
20	United Arab Emirates	33,397	2003
21	Italy	31,791	2005
22	Kuwait	31,051	2004
23	Brunei Darussalam	30,298	2004
24	Singapore	29,917	2005
—	European Union	29,476[1]	2006
25	Spain	27,767	2006
26	Greece	27,610	2005
—	Hong Kong, PRC	27,466	2006
27	New Zealand	24,943	2005
28	Cyprus	23,676	2006
29	Bahrain	21,447	2005
30	Israel	20,399	2005
31	The Bahamas	18,917	2003
32	Slovenia	18,610	2005
33	Portugal	18,465	2005
34	South Korea	18,392	2006
35	Republic of China (Taiwan)	15,482	2005
36	Trinidad and Tobago	15,355	2002
37	Malta	15,293	2005
38	Saudi Arabia	14,715	2004
39	Czech Republic	13,848	2006
40	Oman	13,846	2004
41	Estonia	12,203	2005
42	Barbados	12,154	2005
43	Saint Kitts and Nevis	11,741	2003
44	Antigua and Barbuda	11,685	2005
45	Hungary	11,340	2004
46	Slovakia	10,158	2005
47	Croatia	9,558	2005
48	Seychelles	9,051	2005
49	Poland	8,890	2004
50	Chile	8,864	2005
51	Lithuania	8,610	2005
52	Latvia	8,550	2005
53	Libya	8,430	2004
54	Mexico	8,066	2005
55	Equatorial Guinea	7,802	2001
56	Botswana	6,869	2005
57	Russia	6,856	2006
58	Venezuela	6,736	2001
59	Gabon	6,527	N/A
60	Lebanon	6,110	2004
61	Uruguay	6,007	2005
62	Malaysia	5,718	2005
63	Brazil	5,717	2005
64	Saint Lucia	5,650	2001
65	Romania	5,633	2006
66	Argentina	5,458	2005
67	Turkey	5,408	2005
68	South Africa	5,384	2005
69	Panama	5,211	2000
70	Mauritius	5,129	2006
71	Kazakhstan	5,113	2004
72	Grenada	4,989	2003
73	Costa Rica	4,858	2005
74	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	4,360	2001
75	Turkmenistan	4,280	2004
76	Serbia	4,220	2004
77	Dominica	4,181	2005
78	Suriname	4,081	2002
79	Belize	4,028	2005
80	Bulgaria	3,995	2006
81	Jamaica	3,952	2005
82	Belarus	3,808	2005
83	Dominican Republic	3,653	2004
84	Fiji	3,454	2000
85	Algeria	3,413	2005
86	Peru	3,374	2005
87	Thailand	3,136	2005
88	Namibia	3,084	1994
89	Republic of Macedonia	3,059	2005
90	Iran	3,046	2005
91	Ecuador	2,987	2001
92	Tunisia	2,982	2004
93	Albania	2,898	2001
94	Colombia	2,888	2005
95	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,884	2005
96	Maldives	2,864	2004
97	Angola	2,758	2000
98	El Salvador	2,619	2005
99	Jordan	2,544	2005
100	Guatemala	2,508	2004
101	Cape Verde	2,371	2003
102	Azerbaijan	2,336	2005
103	Swaziland	2,301	2004
104	Ukraine	2,274	2005
105	Tonga	2,189	2005
106	Republic of the Congo	2,147	2004
107	People's Republic of China	2,001	2006
108	Samoa	1,959	2005
109	Armenia	1,888	2004
110	Morocco	1,886	2004
111	Georgia	1,779	2004
112	Vanuatu	1,737	1999
113	Syria	1,645	2003
114	Indonesia	1,640	2005
115	Egypt	1,489	2005
116	Paraguay	1,483	2002
117	Sri Lanka	1,355	2004
118	Philippines	1,345	2005
119	Bhutan	1,254	2004
120	Honduras	1,213	2001
121	Guyana	1,147	2002
122	Bolivia	1,125	2004
123	Mongolia	1,081	2005
124	Sudan	1,037	2005
125	Djibouti	1,028	N/A
126	Cameroon	1,002	2004
127	Moldova	957	2005
128	Côte d'Ivoire	939	2005
129	Zambia	922	2003
130	Mauritania	921	2004
131	Nicaragua	908	2003
132	Pakistan	830	2005
133	India	797	2004
134	Senegal	774	2005
135	Nigeria	770	2003
136	Vietnam	723	2004
137	Papua New Guinea	708	2000
138	Chad	707	2004
139	Yemen	693	2005
140	Kenya	681	2003
141	Lesotho	679	1996
142	Solomon Islands	649	2005
143	Comoros	642	2003
144	Kiribati	630	2004
145	Benin	625	2002
146	Uzbekistan	605	2005
147	Ghana	602	N/A
148	Laos	567	2004
149	Kyrgyzstan	542	2005
150	Haiti	528	2004
151	Cambodia	503	2005
152	Mali	485	1990
153	São Tomé and Príncipe	474	2004
154	Zimbabwe	472	2000
155	Bangladesh	451	2004
156	Burkina Faso	451	2001
157	Tajikistan	441	2004
158	Mozambique	364	2005
159	Central African Republic	355	2004
160	East Timor	350	2004
161	Togo	350	2001
162	Guinea	347	2005
163	Nepal	339	2003
164	Afghanistan	335	2005
165	Tanzania	335	2001
166	The Gambia	325	2006
167	Uganda	316	2005
168	Madagascar	299	2005
169	Niger	274	2004
170	Rwanda	261	2005
171	Sierra Leone	254	2004
172	Eritrea	244	2005
173	Myanmar	230	2003
174	Guinea-Bissau	187	1997
175	Liberia	185	2006
176	Ethiopia	177	2006
177	Malawi	171	2004
178	Democratic Republic of the Congo	144	1983
179	Burundi	119	N/A