Digitization Index score of 10 percent correlates with a 0.50 percent to 0.62 percent gain in per capita GDP.
Suzhou, one of 280 prefecture-level cities, has a per capita GDP which is 70% and 46% higher than Beijing and Shanghai, respectively.
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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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.
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.
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.
In looking around for some data to try and prove this point I came across a very interesting historical dataset of per capita GDP from The Conference Board.
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Per capita GDP hit a low of 72 percent of U.S. GDP in the 1990s, but has since been skyrocketing and now stands at nearly 84 percent of U.S. GDP.
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As I have mentioned before, in terms of per capita GDP, Britain actually saw more growth in living standards, on average between 1998 and 2010 than Germany, and that's including the recession.
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.
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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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.
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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We used three-year averages for per-capita income and GDP, to smooth out temporary changes.
In the 1960s, GDP per capita was comparable with levels in the poorer countries of Africa and Asia.
All of the GDP per capita PPP values were taken from the World Bank Database and refer to 2011.
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"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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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