When you allow for these factors, one sees that the per capita income (based on GDP) has grown about two and a half times over this 45 year period.
The "greening" of Chengdu created 500, 000 jobs, nearly tripling the per capita income in the region, and included the cleaning up or closing of more than 1, 000 commercial sources of pollution.
The fact that Romania has an average January temperature in the mid-20s, the lowest per capita income in the European Union and is the home to both Dracula and Copsa Mica, one of the most polluted cities in the world, never entered into my thinking.
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On the global per capita income scale, Brazil is likely to sleep from 38 to 39 over the next decade, according to Consensus Forecast.
On the other end of the list are the states with the lowest per capita income.
Wang estimates that the per-capita disposable income of urban Chinese households in 2008 should be Rmb32, 154, 90% above the official data.
Oil and gas likely have made Qatar the second highest per-capita income country - behind Liechtenstein - and the country with the lowest unemployment.
All fall within the bottom 16 states in terms of per capita income, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.
In the 14 years before TABOR, per capita income growth in Colorado was below the national average.
Only eight Indians out of every thousand own a car, compared with about 750 per thousand in the U.S. Per-capita income is up 8.4% over last year, an improvement over that year's 7.4% gain over the year before.
Income on a per capita basis in China and India is expected to increase seven-fold over the next 50 years, and in the poorest countries, income per capita will more than quadruple by 2060, says the OECD.
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The islands enjoy a high per capita income and a well-developed infrastructure as compared with other countries in the region.
While the potential market opportunity is large, there could limitations from poor broadband quality and low per capita income in the region that might could reduce the near-term adoption.
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In the 14 years after TABOR, per capita income growth was almost 20% (19.3%) higher than the national average.
Among the 20 areas where per capita personal income fell furthest, six were in Texas, where declines in energy prices slowed oil and gas drilling activity.
The biggest increases in per-capita income were in Sakhalin (where per-capita income grew 4.4 times) Dagestan (3.7 times), Chukotka (3.2), Moscow (2.8), Leningrad Oblast (2.4), Kaliningrad Oblast (2.4), and Saint Petersburg (2.3).
The U.S. may be richer per capita, but if unemployment keeps up as the IMF expects then median income and wages will continue to decline even if GDP per capita goes up.
In the Elkhart, Indiana metro area, for instance, per capita income fell 6.5%, the eighth biggest drop in the nation.
Hungary has made the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, with a per capita income nearly two-thirds that of the EU-25 average.
Per capita income in the UK is in decline due to high unemployment and slower economic growth.
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Now it is the most vigorous, with a per capita income exceeding that of Britain, France or Germany.
Using Bureau of Economic Analysis data, my associate Jonathan Robe calculated real growth rates in per capita income in the 50 states from 1980 through 2009.
Most of them have suffered a fall in per capita income for the past several decades, and health problems like Aids have dramatically lowered life expectancy.
If Myanmar achieves its expansion rate of 7% to 8% each year it will become a middle income nation and will have tripled per capita income within the same time frame.
Turning to the economy, the Peoples' Alliance say that per capita income and annual economic growth have risen under their tenure, while unemployment has been reduced from around 14% in 1994 to around 8% in 1999.
The number one large nation in per-capita income ranks 17th (out of 34) in this department.
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The fragmented European hotel market and rising per capita income in emerging economies provide tremendous growth opportunities for travel agencies.
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Moreover, per capita income relative to the U.S. average declined substantially after adoption of state income taxes in all 11 states.
Since 1970, when it established an export-processing zone, its foreign sales of textiles and sugar have boomed and its per capita income is now the second highest in Africa.
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