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The eight major pass-through economies—the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Hong Kong SAR, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, and Singapore—host more than 85 percent of the world’s investment in special purpose entities, which are often set up for tax reasons.
On the whole, PPP per capita figures are less spread than nominal GDP per capita figures. [5] The rankings of national economies over time have changed considerably; the United States surpassed the British Empire's output around 1916, [6] which in turn had surpassed the Qing dynasty in aggregate output decades earlier.
This is similar to nominal GDP per capita but adjusted for the cost of living in each country. In 2019, the estimated average GDP per capita (PPP) of all of the countries of the world was Int$ 18,381. [a] For rankings regarding wealth, see list of countries by wealth per adult.
It has the world's sixth highest per capita GDP (nominal) and the eighth highest per capita GDP (PPP) as of 2024. [10] The U.S. accounted for 26% of the global economy in 2023 in nominal terms, and about 15.5% in PPP terms.
— International Comparison Program, World Bank [1] ... United States: 2023: 82,190: ... World region Year GNI PPP per capita 2000 2010 2020
(See List of countries by GDP (PPP).) PPP largely removes the exchange rate problem, but has its own drawbacks; it does not reflect the value of economic output in international trade, and it also requires more estimation than GDP per capita. On the whole, PPP per capita figures are more narrowly spread than nominal GDP per capita figures.
The first set of data on the left columns of the table includes estimates for the year 2023 made for each economy of the 196 economies (189 U.N. member states and 7 areas of Aruba, Hong Kong, Kosovo, Macau, Palestine, Puerto Rico, and Taiwan) covered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s International Financial Statistics (IFS) database.
Country GDP per working hour (2017 US$ PPP) Year Luxembourg 146.1 2023 Ireland 142.5 2023 Norway 92.6 2023 Netherlands 79.8 2023 Denmark 78.2 2023 Switzerland 75.6 ...