At the bottom, each notch denotes a doubling of per-capita GDP, not a steady increase.
But among the top performers is Tyumen, with a per-capita GDP comparable to the United States, a level which Sakhalin is swiftly approaching.
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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We used three-year averages for per-capita income and GDP, to smooth out temporary changes.
Only 13 out of 80 regions were able to raise their regional GDP per-capita incomes by two times or more and another two to three were close to achieving similar raises.
Since liberalization of its economy, with exports nearly tripling as a percentage of GDP, per-capita real wealth has more than doubled.
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.
And there was a sustained expansion of the higher-education system: the share of working-age adults with a university degree rose from 5% in 1980 to 14% in 1996 and 31% in 2011, a faster increase than in France, Germany or the US. The combination of these policies helped the UK to bridge the GDP-per-capita gap with other leading nations.
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.
Suzhou, one of 280 prefecture-level cities, has a per capita GDP which is 70% and 46% higher than Beijing and Shanghai, respectively.
The country's GDP per capita was then two-thirds of England's.
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.
"That's very important -- not only does it mean Indonesia's GDP and per capita income are going to rise very substantially ... but also it's very important for the rest of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), because Indonesia is going to act as a growth driver for other ASEAN economies and for Asia regionally, " Biswas said.
Ireland's stunning GDP growth from 70% of the EU per-capita average in 1990 to 136% in 2003 has made the EU's new entrants determined to emulate it.
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.
Petersburg and the energy-rich Khanty-Mansi Autonomous area (Yugra), Tyumen Region and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area have together they have 30 Million people and have a gdp per capita fo 31, 000 dollars in 2011 (i calculated my self).
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton filled the conference hall to appeal for private-sector investment to rebuild the shattered island, pointing the success of Rwanda in quadrupling its per capita GDP in the decade after being ravaged by war as an example of how a seemingly hopeless economy could be changed for the better.
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