GNI per capita, PPP
constant 2021 international $
- Published value. Native scale: positive, unbounded (dollars per person).
- Transform: ln(value) — so that equal ratios count equally: going from 1,000 to 2,000 scores the same as 20,000 to 40,000.
- Goalposts (fixed for all years; 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of all observed country-years): worst = 1409 (transformed 7.2510) scores 0, best = 85,026 (transformed 11.35) scores 100.
- Direction: higher is better, no flip.
- Clip and scale: anything below the worst goalpost scores 0 and anything above the best scores 100; multiply by 100.
Where the numbers come from
- World Bank national accounts data (WDI) produces the series — Divides each country's GNI by its population and converts it to constant 2021 international dollars using the PPPs below; fills gaps with World Bank staff estimates.
- International Comparison Program (ICP), World Bank underlying data — Supplies the purchasing power parities (PPPs) used for the conversion for all non-OECD, non-EU economies.
- Eurostat–OECD PPP Programme underlying data — Supplies the PPPs for EU and OECD member countries.
- OECD National Accounts and IMF World Economic Outlook underlying data — GNI in local currency comes from national accounts reported by national statistical offices to the OECD and IMF.
Source statement as published by the data provider (verbatim)
International Comparison Program (ICP), World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/icp/data, note: This information is for ICP’s PPPs utilized in WDI, publisher: International Comparison Program (ICP), date accessed: May 30, 2024, date published: May 30, 2024; The Eurostat PPP Programme, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/all_themes, publisher: Eurostat; The OECD PPP Programme, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), uri: https://data-explorer.oecd.org/, publisher: OECD; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); World Economic Outlook database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
This indicator provides values for gross national income (GNI) per person expressed in constant international dollars, converted by purchasing power parities (PPPs). PPPs account for the different price levels across countries and thus PPP-based comparisons of economic output are more appropriate for comparing the output of economies and the average material well-being of their inhabitants than exchange-rate based comparisons. Gross national income is the total income earned by all residents within an economic territory during an accounting period. It is equal to gross domestic product plus earned income receivable from abroad minus earned income payable abroad. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate. This indicator is expressed in constant prices, meaning the series has been adjusted to account for price changes over time. The reference year for this adjustment is 2021. The PPP conversion factor is a currency conversion factor and a spatial price deflator. PPPs convert different currencies to a common currency and, in the process of conversion, equalize their purchasing power by eliminating the differences in price levels between countries, thereby allowing volume or output comparisons of GDP and its expenditure components.
Every country row below has a “verify” link to this series filtered to that country, so each value can be checked against the source.
History
Countries ranked on this indicator
197 countries have a usable value for 2024 (46 carried forward from an earlier year); 20 have none within 3 years.
No official value for 2024: 20 countries
American Samoa, Channel Islands, Cuba, Eritrea, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guam, Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, St. Martin (French part), Monaco, Northern Mariana Islands, New Caledonia, Korea, Dem. People's Rep., French Polynesia, South Sudan, Venezuela, RB, British Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Yemen, Rep.