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While per capita income can be useful for many economic studies, it is important to keep in mind its limitations. Comparisons of per capita income over time need to consider inflation. Without adjusting for inflation , figures tend to overstate the effects of economic growth.
This is a list of countries by nominal GDP per capita. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living; [1] [2] however, this is inaccurate because GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income. Measures of personal income include average wage, real income, median income, disposable income and GNI per capita.
A country's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita is the PPP value of all final goods and services produced within an economy in a given year, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year. This is similar to nominal GDP per capita but adjusted for the cost of living in each country.
Other studies support the above view on the general trends in the economy, providing comparative measures of standard of living. The per capita income (in purchasing power terms) of Greece was 65% that of France in 1850, 56% in 1890, 62% in 1938, [78] [79] 75% in 1980, 90% in 2007, 96.4% in 2008 and 97.9% in 2009. [80] [81]
This is a cautionary tale for economists using per-capita income growth as a proxy for how fast living standards are rising in any given state in the United States. In fact, Falcettoni and Nygaard find that per-capita income growth is only weakly correlated with how fast living standards are rising and deviations can be significantly large.
Median personal income in the United States. As per United States Census Bureau 2022 data, the mean per capita income in the United States is $37,683, while median household income is around $69,021. [1] One of the most commonly used metrics for gauging the economic performance and shifting fortunes of local economies is per capita income (PCI ...
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Qatar is now among the richest countries in the world, on a per person basis. [39] Current GDP per capita registered a world record-breaking peak growth of 1,156% in the 70s. [40] This became quickly unsustainable due to the 1980s oil glut, and Qatar's current GDP per capita contracted 53% in the 80s. But rising global oil demand helped current ...