Rich, poor, and which way they are moving
Output per person across the bottom, growth up the side
Real GDP growth, percent
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Output per person, logarithmic
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$40,000 and above$12,000 to $39,999$3,000 to $11,999below $3,000
Horizontal position is output per person on a logarithmic scale, because the range runs from a few hundred dollars to nearly three hundred thousand. Vertical position is how fast the economy grew. If poorer countries were catching up, the cloud would slope down to the right.
$116.6Tcombined output of all 191 countries with a figure
14economies contracted rather than grew
24countries had inflation at 10 percent or above
+19.3%growth in Guyana, the fastest
All 195 countries
191 have an output per person figure. 4 do not.
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- 🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis
- 🇱🇨Saint Lucia
- 🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- 🇼🇸Samoa
- 🇸🇲San Marino
- 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
- 🇸🇳Senegal
- 🇷🇸Serbia
- 🇸🇨Seychelles
- 🇸🇱Sierra Leone
- 🇸🇬Singapore
- 🇸🇰Slovakia
- 🇸🇮Slovenia
- 🇸🇧Solomon Islands
- 🇸🇴Somalia
- 🇿🇦South Africa
- 🇰🇷South Korea
- 🇸🇸South Sudan
- 🇪🇸Spain
- 🇱🇰Sri Lanka
- 🇸🇩Sudan
- 🇸🇷Suriname
- 🇸🇪Sweden
- 🇨🇭Switzerland
- 🇸🇾Syria
- 🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
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About these figures
Nominal GDP and output per person are in current US dollars, not adjusted for price differences between countries. 4 countries have no published figure and 19 have no inflation figure; both are shown as not available, never estimated.