At the same time, China really is still a poor country in terms of per capita income.

In terms of GDP per capita, Qatar is the richest developing country in the world.

Country A, in 1990, had about 300 per capita GDP as compared with Country B, which had 460 in per capita GDP.

The per capita gross national product (GNP) is around 850.

In contrast, over the same period, the cumulative increase was 1.6 times for urban residents per capita disposable income and 1.2 times for rural peasants per capita income.

In 1957, South Korea had a lower per capita GDP than Ghana, and by 2008 it was 17 times as high as Ghana's.

It's basically two ratios of per capita GDP, per capita gross domestic product, so average income.

Source Own figures based on data from the Bank of Guatemala, UNDP HDI and ASIES.

Economy Finland has a highly industrialized mixed economy with a per capita output equal to that of other European economies such as France, Germany, Belgium or the UK.

Total personal income is a key value in calculating per capita income.

a Low income GNI per capita of 735 and less.

GDP per capita, growth of GDP per capita and inward foreign direct investment, landlocked and transit developing countries and developing countries as a whole, 2000 2003

In 2010, China s economy surpassed Japan s in total size, though it is only one sixth the size in per capita terms.

GDP per capita in 2001 was KM 2,559.00.

Despite the eight fold increase in aid per head to the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1960 and 2007, real GDP per head decreased by two thirds in the same period.

The United States spends more on health care than any other country (both per capita and as a percentage of income), but gets poorer outcomes.

Doing so would raise per capita income by 1 annually through 2030.

But energy consumption and thus carbon emissions rise with per capita income.

Urban household spending in Africa is increasing twice as fast as rural spending, with urban per capita incomes, on average, 80 higher than those of countries as a whole.

Even for a developing economy with per capita income of 3,000, such as China, building wealth in the middle classes remains a central issue.

That is, the per capita GDP gap between China and developed countries essentially reflects the gap between them in terms of overall technological and industrial achievement.

Over the next half century, South Korea became the world s 11th largest economy, with per capita income reaching more than 15,000.

Economic performance in several Latin American countries was relatively weak in this period, with Uruguay s real GDP per capita actually recording a fall by a fraction of a percent.

And, given similar per capita income levels and cultural orientations, overlaps in production and consumption are considerable.

At this rate, real per capita GDP will double every 16 years.

In mainland United States during the same year, GDP per capita was estimated at 37,800.

That will soon be the case again, even though in terms of per capita wealth China ranks roughly 100th in the world, trailing Albania.

The Netherlands is second only to Germany in the volume of credit that it channels through the so called Target 2 system to the eurozone periphery, and it is the periphery s largest creditor in per capita terms.

For example, China s per capita carbon emissions are more than four times higher than India s.

If both countries economies continue to grow at their current rates, China s could be larger than America s in 30 years, but US per capita income will still be four times greater.

Her reforms laid the foundations for a period during which Britain s per capita wealth grew faster than most of its competitors .

Per capita income was approximately US 7,700 in 2003.

Although China surpassed Japan as the world s second largest economy two years ago, Japan is a comfortable society with a much higher per capita income.

Developing countries that consume 0.3 tonnes or less per capita of ODS are referred to as Article 5 countries.

At the same time, China really is still a poor country in terms of per capita income. And parts of the country are more similar to sections of troubled developing countries than to China s showplace cities.

But if you come back to a poorer country, where the GNP per capita is, let's say, 500 dollars, or 300 dollars, then the impact is huge 6,000 dollars. Or 5,000 dollars.

And China, where income per person is one eighth the level of the US (adjusted for purchasing power parity), is simply too poor to become the new hegemony.

Urban per capita income is more than triple the average in rural areas.

So GDP per capita statistics may not reflect what is happening to most citizens.

The minimally fair allocation to the developing countries requires equal emission rights per capita.

For example, the US consumes more than nine times as much oil as China on a per capita basis.

Lower middle income GNI per capita between 736 and 2,935.

This development is critically important for consumer companies. Urban household spending in Africa is increasing twice as fast as rural spending, with urban per capita incomes, on average, 80 higher than those of countries as a whole.

Today, average per capita income is 10,000, with the rich world averaging around 40,000 and the developing world around 4,000.

On the other hand, critics point out that the world today is poor average annual GDP per capita at purchasing power parity is roughly 7,000.