World Bank Data · 198 countries

Countries With Highest GDP Per Capita

GDP per capita is the most widely used measure of a country's economic output per person. Small, resource-rich nations and financial centers dominate the top of this ranking — Luxembourg, Singapore, Ireland, and Qatar consistently lead. These countries benefit from specialized economies: Luxembourg's banking sector, Singapore's trade hub status, Ireland's multinational corporate headquarters, and Qatar's natural gas wealth. GDP per capita doesn't capture income distribution — a country can have high GDP per capita while most citizens remain poor if wealth is concentrated among elites. Nonetheless, it remains the standard benchmark for comparing economic development across nations and is used by the World Bank to classify countries by income level. The gap between the richest and poorest countries exceeds 100:1.

Key Findings

1Monaco leads with a GDP per capita of $256,800, followed by Liechtenstein ($206,781) and Luxembourg ($133,231).
2Burundi ranks last at $251, while Monaco leads at $256,800.
3The national median across all states is $7,542 (Jamaica at the midpoint).
4The top 10 states are: Monaco, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Bermuda, Ireland, Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Norway, Singapore, Iceland.

Full Ranking: Countries With Highest GDP Per Capita

Source: Census ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates

#	Country	GDP/Capita	Population	Life Expectancy
1	Zimbabwe	$2,195	16,340,822	62.8
2	Zambia	$1,331	20,723,965	66.3
3	Viet Nam	$4,323	100,352,192	74.6
4	Venezuela, RB	$3,617	28,300,854	72.5
5	Vanuatu	$3,483	320,409	71.5
6	Uzbekistan	$2,879	35,652,307	72.4
7	Uruguay	$23,019	3,388,081	78.1
8	United States	$81,032	336,806,231	78.4
9	United Kingdom	$49,944	68,492,000	81.2
10	United Arab Emirates	$49,851	10,483,751	82.9
11	Ukraine	$5,140	37,732,836	73.4
12	Uganda	$1,002	48,656,601	68.3
13	Tuvalu	$6,345	9,816	67.1
14	Turks and Caicos Islands	$35,470	46,198	78
15	Turkmenistan	$6,232	7,364,438	70.1
16	Turkiye	$13,375	85,325,965	77.2
17	Tunisia	$3,951	12,200,431	76.5
18	Trinidad and Tobago	$18,308	1,367,510	73.5
19	Tonga	$5,652	104,597	72.9
20	Togo	$1,055	9,304,337	62.7
21	Timor-Leste	$1,502	1,384,286	67.7
22	Thailand	$7,195	71,702,435	76.4
23	Tanzania	$1,224	66,617,606	67
24	Tajikistan	$1,178	10,389,799	71.8
25	Switzerland	$100,624	8,888,822	84.2
26	Sweden	$54,950	10,536,632	83.3
27	Suriname	$5,522	628,886	73.6
28	Sudan	$797.28	50,042,791	66.3
29	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	$10,582	101,323	71.2
30	St. Lucia	$13,555	179,285	72.7
31	St. Kitts and Nevis	$22,577	46,758	72.1
32	Sri Lanka	$3,799	22,037,000	77.5
33	Spain	$33,493	48,352,528	83.9
34	South Africa	$6,034	63,212,384	66.1
35	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	$596.89	18,358,615	58.8
36	Solomon Islands	$1,883	800,005	70.5
37	Slovenia	$32,660	2,120,461	81.9
38	Slovak Republic	$24,615	5,426,740	78.1
39	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	$39,452	42,749	76.4
40	Singapore	$85,412	5,917,648	83.1
41	Sierra Leone	$758.33	8,460,512	61.8
42	Seychelles	$18,263	119,773	75.4
43	Serbia	$12,282	6,623,183	76.1
44	Senegal	$1,698	18,077,573	68.7
45	Saudi Arabia	$36,157	33,702,731	78.7
46	Sao Tome and Principe	$2,991	230,871	69.7
47	San Marino	$59,880	33,860	85.7
48	Samoa	$4,823	216,663	71.7
49	Rwanda	$1,027	13,954,471	67.8
50	Russian Federation	$14,159	143,826,130	73.3
51	Romania	$18,244	19,061,062	76.4
52	Qatar	$81,817	2,656,032	82.4
53	Puerto Rico (US)	$36,981	3,203,792	81.7
54	Portugal	$27,635	10,578,174	82.3
55	Poland	$22,145	36,687,353	78.3
56	Philippines	$3,804	114,891,199	69.8
57	Peru	$7,888	33,845,617	77.7
58	Paraguay	$6,300	6,844,146	73.8
59	Papua New Guinea	$2,966	10,389,635	66.1
60	Panama	$18,797	4,458,759	79.6
61	Palau	$15,611	17,727	69.3
62	Pakistan	$1,360	247,504,495	67.6
63	Oman	$21,028	5,049,269	80
64	Norway	$87,497	5,519,601	83
65	North Macedonia	$8,674	1,827,816	75.3
66	Nigeria	$2,139	227,882,945	54.5
67	Niger	$638.34	26,159,867	61.2
68	Nicaragua	$2,609	6,823,613	74.9
69	New Zealand	$49,076	5,200,000	81.8
70	New Caledonia	$33,702	289,870	78.8
71	Netherlands	$63,516	17,877,117	81.9
72	Nepal	$1,382	29,694,614	70.4
73	Nauru	$12,752	11,875	62.1
74	Namibia	$4,188	2,963,095	67.4
75	Myanmar	$1,233	54,133,798	66.9
76	Mozambique	$622.00	33,635,160	63.6
77	Morocco	$3,814	37,712,505	75.3
78	Montenegro	$12,260	623,529	77.6
79	Mongolia	$5,839	3,481,145	72.1
80	Monaco	$256,800	38,956	86.4
81	Moldova	$6,800	2,457,783	71.2
82	Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	$3,920	112,630	67.2
83	Mexico	$13,861	129,739,759	75.1
84	Mauritius	$11,270	1,248,647	73.4
85	Mauritania	$2,136	5,022,441	68.5
86	Marshall Islands	$6,793	38,827	66.9
87	Malta	$40,906	552,747	83.4
88	Mali	$1,044	23,769,127	60.4
89	Maldives	$12,588	525,994	81
90	Malaysia	$11,386	35,126,298	76.7
91	Malawi	$633.21	21,104,482	67.4
92	Madagascar	$508.72	31,195,932	63.6
93	Luxembourg	$133,231	666,430	83.3
94	Lithuania	$27,786	2,871,585	77.3
95	Liechtenstein	$206,781	39,846	84.6
96	Libya	$6,027	7,305,659	69.3
97	Liberia	$799.19	5,493,031	62.2
98	Lesotho	$916.28	2,311,472	57.4
99	Lebanon	$3,478	5,773,493	77.8
100	Latvia	$22,710	1,883,710	75.4
101	Lao PDR	$2,067	7,664,993	69
102	Kyrgyz Republic	$2,138	7,099,750	72.2
103	Kuwait	$34,076	4,853,420	83.2
104	Kosovo	$6,221	1,682,668	78
105	Korea, Rep.	$35,674	51,712,619	83.4
106	Kiribati	$2,178	132,530	66.5
107	Kenya	$1,943	55,339,003	63.6
108	Kazakhstan	$12,879	20,330,104	74.4
109	Jordan	$4,466	11,439,213	77.8
110	Japan	$33,836	124,516,650	84
111	Jamaica	$7,542	2,839,786	71.5
112	Italy	$39,277	58,984,216	83.4
113	Ireland	$106,819	5,311,538	82.8
114	Iraq	$5,965	45,074,049	72.3
115	Iran, Islamic Rep.	$5,049	90,608,707	77.7
116	Indonesia	$4,876	281,190,067	71.1
117	India	$2,530	1,438,069,596	72
118	Iceland	$82,139	385,663	82.5
119	Hungary	$22,231	9,592,186	76.6
120	Honduras	$3,227	10,644,851	72.9
121	Haiti	$1,706	11,637,398	64.9
122	Guyana	$20,474	826,353	70.2
123	Guinea-Bissau	$988.09	2,153,339	64.1
124	Guinea	$1,555	14,405,468	60.7
125	Guatemala	$5,758	18,124,838	72.6
126	Grenada	$11,414	117,081	75.2
127	Greenland	$58,499	56,865	71
128	Greece	$23,344	10,407,351	81.7
129	Ghana	$2,384	33,787,914	65.5
130	Germany	$54,777	83,287,273	81
131	Georgia	$8,284	3,715,483	74.5
132	Gambia, The	$883.02	2,697,845	65.9
133	Gabon	$7,803	2,484,789	68.3
134	French Polynesia	$21,832	281,118	84.1
135	France	$44,700	68,372,286	82.8
136	Finland	$52,834	5,583,911	81.6
137	Fiji	$5,926	924,145	67.3
138	Faroe Islands	$72,465	54,414	83
139	Ethiopia	$1,056	128,691,692	67.3
140	Eswatini	$3,756	1,230,506	64.1
141	Estonia	$30,264	1,370,286	78.8
142	Equatorial Guinea	$6,678	1,847,549	63.7
143	El Salvador	$5,365	6,309,624	72.1
144	Egypt, Arab Rep.	$3,457	114,535,772	71.6
145	Ecuador	$6,738	17,980,083	77.4
146	Dominican Republic	$10,630	11,331,265	73.7
147	Dominica	$9,913	66,510	71.1
148	Djibouti	$3,381	1,152,944	66
149	Denmark	$68,044	5,946,952	81.8
150	Czechia	$31,762	10,864,042	79.8
151	Cyprus	$36,624	1,344,976	81.6
152	Curacao	$21,218	154,654	76.8
153	Croatia	$22,184	3,859,686	78.5
154	Cote d'Ivoire	$2,592	31,165,654	61.9
155	Costa Rica	$16,942	5,105,525	80.8
156	Congo, Rep.	$2,478	6,182,885	65.8
157	Congo, Dem. Rep.	$660.21	105,789,731	61.9
158	Comoros	$1,560	850,387	66.8
159	Colombia	$7,001	52,321,152	77.7
160	China	$12,951	1,410,710,000	78
161	Chile	$17,067	19,658,835	81.2
162	Chad	$949.33	19,319,064	55.1
163	Central African Republic	$495.98	5,152,421	57.4
164	Cayman Islands	$99,144	73,038	80.4
165	Canada	$54,220	40,083,484	81.6
166	Cameroon	$1,720	28,372,687	63.7
167	Cambodia	$2,430	17,423,880	70.7
168	Cabo Verde	$4,795	522,331	76.1
169	Burundi	$250.63	13,689,450	63.7
170	Burkina Faso	$873.48	23,025,776	61.1
171	Bulgaria	$15,853	6,446,596	75.8
172	Brunei Darussalam	$32,891	458,949	75.3
173	Brazil	$10,378	211,140,729	75.8
174	Botswana	$7,826	2,480,244	69.2
175	Bosnia and Herzegovina	$8,663	3,185,073	77.9
176	Bolivia	$4,275	12,244,159	68.6
177	Bhutan	$3,831	786,385	73
178	Bermuda	$132,604	64,698	82.3
179	Benin	$1,394	14,111,034	60.8
180	Belize	$7,425	411,106	73.6
181	Belgium	$55,291	11,779,946	82.4
182	Belarus	$7,897	9,178,298	74.2
183	Barbados	$25,584	282,336	76.2
184	Bangladesh	$2,551	171,466,990	74.7
185	Bahrain	$29,290	1,577,059	81.3
186	Bahamas, The	$38,232	399,440	74.6
187	Azerbaijan	$7,133	10,153,958	74.4
188	Austria	$56,580	9,131,761	81.8
189	Australia	$65,058	26,659,922	83.1
190	Aruba	$35,719	107,359	76.4
191	Armenia	$8,159	2,964,300	77.5
192	Argentina	$14,262	45,538,401	77.4
193	Antigua and Barbuda	$21,495	93,316	77.6
194	Angola	$2,916	36,749,906	64.6
195	Andorra	$46,812	80,856	84
196	Algeria	$5,370	46,164,219	76.3
197	Albania	$9,731	2,414,095	79.6
198	Afghanistan	$413.76	41,454,761	66

Methodology

Rankings are based on American Community Survey (ACS) 2023 5-Year estimates from the US Census Bureau. All 50 states and the District of Columbia are included. The ACS surveys approximately 3.5 million households annually and provides detailed demographic, social, economic, and housing data. 5-Year estimates offer the most reliable data for state-level comparisons by averaging responses over a 60-month period. Percentages may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Monaco has the highest GDP per capita at $256,800, according to Census ACS 2023 data. Liechtenstein and Luxembourg round out the top three.

Burundi has the lowest GDP per capita at $251. Afghanistan is second-lowest at $414.

The median across all 198 states is $7,542. Note that the national median and the state-level median are calculated differently — the state median represents the midpoint when all states are ranked.

This data comes from the American Community Survey (ACS) 2023 5-Year estimates published by the US Census Bureau. The ACS surveys approximately 3.5 million households annually and provides the most comprehensive demographic data available between decennial censuses.

Rankings are based on the latest available Census ACS data (currently 2023 5-Year estimates). The Census Bureau releases new ACS data annually, typically in September. Our data was last updated on April 12, 2026.

Sources: US Census Bureau ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates