This chart shows US GDP per capita from 1948-58 and Russian GDP per capita from 1998-2008 (the last year available in the dataset).
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Greece has a capitalist economy with a public sector accounting for about 40% of GDP and with per capita GDP about two-thirds that of the leading euro-zone economies.
It has the population of Saudi Arabia, the GDP of Algeria and GDP per capita similar to that of South Africa.
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Clearly and obviously the people living and working in the country cannot all, in aggregate, earn more than that GDP, not each individually more than the GDP per capita.
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Remember that the U.S. GDP is still nearly three times that of China, and U.S. GDP per capita is more than 10 times more.
Also, both real GDP and real GDP per capita would be more than 50% higher today.
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One way of checking that is to look at GDP per capita for the country.
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Those wages are in the range of 49% of GDP per capita to 83% of it.
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Note that GDP per capita in the 2000s was the second lowest for the last 110 years.
In the 1960s, GDP per capita was comparable with levels in the poorer countries of Africa and Asia.
Zero per capita GDP growth what 2% constitutes was the very recipe that produced the Dark Ages.
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All of the GDP per capita PPP values were taken from the World Bank Database and refer to 2011.
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Digitization Index score of 10 percent correlates with a 0.50 percent to 0.62 percent gain in per capita GDP.
"In terms of GDP per capita, it is certainly getting poorer or not developing as fast, " the EIU's Thaker added.
Over the last five years the country has prospered and the GDP per capita has increased by a substantial amount.
The real shocker: Ireland's GDP per capita now tops England's by 15% and is second only to Luxembourg's in Europe.
Generally higher birthrates in Muslim nations are often cited as a drag, and statistically they certainly limit per capita GDP.
But the most intriguing figure (besides GDP per capita, which is the most important, and Corruption, the most damming) is internet usage.
Suzhou, one of 280 prefecture-level cities, has a per capita GDP which is 70% and 46% higher than Beijing and Shanghai, respectively.
Properly adjusted for inflation and population growth, per capita GDP has declined and is now almost certainly negative by more than 2%.
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We may think, for example, of Boston, which ranks fifth in the world in per capita GDP, as a tightly packed urban area.
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From 1985 to 2009, real GDP per capita rose by 43 percent, so per-enrollee spending on higher education has approximately kept pace with that.
Any comparison of per capita GDP with median household income really does rather need to take account of the 21% decline in household size.
Qatar is smaller than the Bahamas in land area, has less than 300, 000 citizens, but boasts the highest per capita GDP in the world.
As the storm raged, its link to the greenback held tight, and GDP per capita fell by much less than it did in neighboring countries.
Per capita GDP growth began to rise again the same year.
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But a government has little to no ability to increase long-run growth in real per capita GDP from 2% per year to 3% per year.
They found that, over the long haul, economies with slower GDP per capita growth produced better real returns on shares than faster-growing ones, and vice versa.
Supporting evidence: In 2010, the United Nations ranked China 92nd on its Human Development Index, and the IMF places it 94th in terms of GDP per capita.
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