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The United States has a highly developed mixed economy. [44] [45] [46] It is the world's largest economy by nominal GDP and second largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). [47]As of 2024, it has the world's sixth highest nominal GDP per capita and eighth highest GDP per capita by PPP). [10]
GDP per capita measures (like aggregate GDP measures) do not account for income distribution (and tend to overstate the average income per capita). For example, South Africa during apartheid ranked high in terms of GDP per capita, but the benefits of this immense wealth and income were not shared equally among its citizens. [ 78 ]
In 2016 the GDP per capita in Canada was 44820 compared to 57638 in the US. This table show the same economic indicators in the United States in selected years between 1980 and 2017. Inflation under 2% is in green. [8] [Notes 2]
In 2011, the US has an estimated per capita gross domestic product (PPP) of $47,200, and is the most technologically developed economy in North America. [11] The United States' services sector comprises 80% of the country's GDP (estimated in 2017), industry comprises 19.1% and agriculture comprises 0.9%. [11]
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.
On the whole, PPP per capita figures are less spread than nominal GDP per capita figures. [ 5 ] The rankings of national economies over time have changed considerably; the economy of the United States surpassed the British Empire's output around 1916, [ 6 ] which in turn had surpassed the economy of the Qing dynasty in aggregate output decades ...
NDP: Net domestic product is defined as "gross domestic product (GDP) minus depreciation of capital", [6] similar to NNP. GDP per capita: Gross domestic product per capita is the average market value rendered per person. GNI per capita: Gross national income per capita is related to average income per person and mean income.
This is a list of North American nations ranked by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in nominal terms, which are calculated at market or government official exchange rates. The figures provided are 2019 estimates from the IMF [1]