The per capita income gap between the top 10% of urban households and bottom 10% of rural households is adjusted from 23x based on the official data to 65x.
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.
According to the World Bank, compare to the poor economic performance during Yeltsin administration, in which per capita income had a average negative growth rate of -6.2% per year, during the Putin administration, the Russian per capita income has increased an average of 6.9% per year.
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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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The per-capita income gap between the incomes of the top 10% and bottom 10% of urban residents rose from 9x (based on the official data) to 26x, after the adjustment.
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.
Such national traits can make up for other demographic shortcomings, such as Australia's relatively small population, or the low per capita income of a developing nation, such as China, which has invested heavily in its national sports programs.
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.
After including the hidden income, urban disposable income per capita reaches Rmb32, 000, almost double that of the official data.
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.
But no matter how fast their GDPs grow, the median income of the people is less than Greece, the poorest country in the EU as measured by per capita income.
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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.
High income households (the top 20-30%) should have a per-capita disposable income of Rmb55, 000, instead of the officially announced Rmb26, 000.
The biggest percentage decline in per capita income 8.4% was in Midland, Texas, where incomes fell with oil prices last year.
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.
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