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GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001

2001, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001 covers 192 countries. Luxembourg is highest, at 116,265.2; Somalia is lowest, at 723.4. The middle country reads 10,907.3. Against 2000, 192 values changed (141 up, 51 down), the same countries are covered.

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GDP per Capita (PPP) · Data for 2001

HighestLuxembourg

116,265.2

LowestSomalia

723.4

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 192 countries · select a heading to sort

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe116,265.2
2BermudaBMUNorthern America104,565.3
3BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia99,680.8
4QatarQATWestern Asia96,901.6
5United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia90,750.3
6San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe80,420.8
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe78,041.0
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe69,489.7
9SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia66,352.1
10AndorraANDSouthern Europe59,109.0
11KuwaitKWTWestern Asia59,099.7
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe57,925.1
13BahrainBHRWestern Asia57,280.7
14MacauMACEastern Asia57,173.9
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe56,887.4
16IrelandIRLNorthern Europe55,534.6
17United StatesUSANorthern America55,024.4
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe54,032.1
19Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia53,309.1
20IcelandISLNorthern Europe51,468.3
21ItalyITASouthern Europe51,332.3
22BelgiumBELWestern Europe50,835.4
23GermanyDEUWestern Europe50,687.7
24CanadaCANNorthern America48,774.1
25SwedenSWENorthern Europe48,389.8

02In 2001

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg116,265.2
  2. 2Bermuda104,565.3
  3. 3Brunei99,680.8
  4. 4Qatar96,901.6
  5. 5United Arab Emirates90,750.3

Lowest

  1. 192Somalia723.4
  2. 191Mozambique785.8
  3. 190Ethiopia851.3
  4. 189DR Congo930.9
  5. 188Burundi1,025.5

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 10,907.3. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 192values changed, of 192 in both
  • 141 · 51rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2001.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 192 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2001). GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-per-capita/2001

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07Questions

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP per capita (PPP) in GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001?

Luxembourg, at 116,265.2, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001 cover?

192.

Where can I download GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is GDP per Capita (PPP), 2001 the newest?

No. The newest held here is GDP per Capita (PPP), 2025.

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