The greater the number of girls who go to secondary school, the Bank adds, the higher the country s per capita income growth.

And, on a per capita basis, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, El Salvador, and Mexico eked out less than 2 annual growth on average.

Median incomes have been stagnant or even falling for the last 30 years, even as per capita GDP has grown.

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

The accounting and consulting firm PwC predicted that per capita GDP growth in China, India, and Nigeria would exceed 4.5 well into the middle of the century.

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.

But if this rate of growth were sustained over a period of just ten years, per capita income would double, which underscores the need for sustained high growth rates.

How should one compare growth records among a group of similar, developed countries? The best measure is not overall GDP growth, but the growth of income per head of the working age population (not per capita).

The economies of the developing countries have been growing, on average, more rapidly than those of the developed countries and per capita incomes in developing countries have been rising, particularly in China and India.

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

GDP per capita in 2001 was KM 2,559.00.

Given the difficulty of reversing these trends, it is difficult to imagine how China could maintain a growth rate anywhere close to 10 for another decade, despite its low per capita income. But there is more.

We expect improved technology and its spread to make the world of 2100, at a 2 annual growth rate, much richer 50,000 per capita of year 2006 purchasing power.

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.

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.

Over the period for which modern statistics are readily available, Democrats have outperformed Republicans by almost every traditional measure of economic performance (per capita GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, budget deficits).

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.

The rate of growth of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita for landlocked developing countries, as a group, declined from 2.2 to 1.5 per cent (on average, weighted by the size of the population) in 2003 compared with 2002 (see table 2).

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

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

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 .

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

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

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

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.

If real per capita GDP growth had continued after 1990 at the rate of the 1980 s, Japan s economy would be 60 larger than it is today implying losses in the trillions of dollars.

Otherwise, the vast explosion of public debt will permanently depress per capita growth by one third or more in most advanced economies a stunning permanent stagnation and would hamstring governments ability to combat the next recession.

Chile currently has a per capita GDP of 15,000, after adjusting for purchasing power.

Compared to the advanced countries, the developing world now has both low per capita incomes and low per capita levels of carbon emissions.