Russian Federation $7,560
Income GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method, 2007
Greenland (Den)
Low-income countries ($935 or less) Lower-middle-income countries ($936–$3,705)
Faeroe Islands (Den)
Iceland
Upper-middle-income countries ($3,706–$11,455)
Sweden Finland
Norway The Netherlands
High-income countries ($11,456 or more)
C a n a d a
no data
United Kingdom
Isle of Man (UK)
Fra
Liechtenstein Andorra
U n i t e d
S t a t e s
Monaco
Gibraltar (UK)
Bermuda (UK) British Virgin Islands (UK) Mexico
Cayman Islands (UK) Belize
The Bahamas Dominican Republic Puerto Cuba Rico (US)
Guatemala Honduras Aruba (Neth) El Salvador Nicaragua Panama Costa Rica
US Virgin Islands (US)
St. Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda
Cape Verde
Guadeloupe (Fr)
Dominica
Martinique (Fr)
St. Lucia
Morocco Alg
Former Spanish Sahara Mauritania Senegal
Mali
Guinea-Bissau
Barbados
Guinea
Sierra Leone Liberia
Suriname
Belarus
Eritrea
Chad
Sudan
Burkina Faso Benin Côte Ghana d'Ivoire Togo
São Tomé and Príncipe
Ecuador
Poland
Niger
The Gambia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Grenada R.B. de French Guiana Venezuela Guyana (Fr) Colombia
Netherlands Antilles (Neth)
Latin America & Caribbean $5,540
Middle East & North Africa $2,794
Haiti
Jamaica
Spain
Portugal
F e d e r a t i o n
Czech Republic Slovak Republic Slovenia Croatia Ukraine Kazakhstan Serbia Austria nce Hungary Moldova Bosnia and Herzegovina Mongolia Switzerland Romania FYR Macedonia Italy Montenegro Bulgaria Uzbekistan Georgia Kyrgyz Republic Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Greece Turkmenistan Turkey Tajikistan Cyprus San Syrian Marino Islamic Republic Tunisia Lebanon Arab Rep. of Iran Afghanistan C h i Malta Iraq Israel Kuwait Jordan Pakistan West Bank and Gaza Nepal Bhutan eria Bahrain Libya Saudi Arabia Arab Rep. of Egypt United Arab Bangladesh Qatar India Emirates Myanmar Oman Germany Belgium
Luxembourg
R u s s i a n
Estonia Latvia Lithuania
Denmark
Ireland
Channel Islands (UK)
Kiribati
Europe & Central Asia $6,051
India $950
Rep. of Yemen
Djibouti Nigeria Cameroon
Ethiopia
Central African Republic
Maldives
Dem. Rep. of Congo Burundi
Tanzania
B r a z i l
East Asia & Pacific $2,180
Guam (US)
Brunei Darussalam
Marshall Islands
Palau Federated States of Micronesia
Singapore Nauru
Mayotte (Fr)
Zambia Malawi
Papua New Guinea
South Asia $880
Comoros
Angola
French Polynesia (Fr)
N. Mariana Islands (US) Philippines
Indonesia Seychelles
Peru
Lao P.D.R.
Malaysia
Kenya
Japan
China $2,360 Vietnam Cambodia
Sri Lanka
Uganda Rwanda
Rep. of Korea
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Thailand
Somalia
Equatorial Guinea Congo Gabon
Dem. People's Rep. of Korea
American Samoa (US)
Timor-Leste
Vanuatu
Bolivia
Brazil $5,910
Paraguay
Zimbabwe Mozambique Madagascar Namibia Botswana Réunion (Fr)
Tuvalu
Solomon Islands
Fiji
New Caledonia (Fr)
Mauritius
A u s t r a l i a
Samoa Tonga
Swaziland Lesotho South Africa
Uruguay
Chile Argentina
Sub-Saharan Africa $952 New Zealand
Living conditions in Liberia, one of the world’s poorest countries
Largest economies, 2007 Rank 1
Country United States
Gross national income, PPP current international $ (billions) 13,829
2
China
7,084
3
Japan
4,421
4
India
5
Germany
6
France
7
United Kingdom
8
Russian Federation
9
Brazil
1,796
10
Italy
1,773
Facts Of the 49 economies classified as low income in 2007, 33 are in Sub-Saharan Africa, 11 are in Asia, 3 are in Europe, 1 is in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 1 is in the Middle East. Most economies in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and Europe and Central Asia are middle-income economies.
Variations within each region can also be large. For example, in 2007 Botswana’s GNI per capita surpassed $5000, while GNI per capita in neighboring Mozambique was only $320. Delivered by The World Bank e-library to: The 2,074 World Bank - IMF Library Network Average GNI per capita in the low- and middle-income countries was 2,063 IP : 138.220.77.170 $2,337 in 2007, while in high-income economies it was $37,566. Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:24:02 3,079 2,758
2,039
As of 2008, 22 economies had moved from developing to high-income status, nine of them in the last two years.
Internet links World Development Indicators
www.worldbank.org/data
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Statistics
www.oecd.org/statistics
International Monetary Fund Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board
http://dsbb.imf.org/ Applications/web/dsbbhome
United Nations Statistics Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/ snaama
International Comparison Project
www.worldbank.org/data/icp
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