Data for 2003

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2003

Name: GDP per Capita (PPP), 2003
Creator: World Bank Group
License: https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use

2003, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2003 covers 193 countries. Luxembourg is highest, at 120,403; Somalia is lowest, at 778. The middle country reads 11,183. Against 2002, 193 values changed (149 up, 44 down), the same countries are covered.

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GDP per Capita (PPP) · Data for 2003

HighestLuxembourg

120,403

LowestSomalia

778

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

193countries
1measure
2003the year it describes
193distinct values12 decimals, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of GDP per Capita (PPP), 2003, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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GDP per Capita (PPP), 2003: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	120,403
2	Bermuda`BMU`Northern America	105,647
3	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	103,227
4	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	98,068
5	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	89,828
6	San Marino`SMR`Southern Europe	81,688
7	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	79,150
8	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	72,498
9	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	68,521
10	Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	67,995
11	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	67,984
12	Andorra`AND`Southern Europe	63,656
13	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	58,608
14	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	58,101
15	United States`USA`Northern America	56,505
16	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	56,453
17	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	54,920
18	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	54,432
19	United States Virgin Islands`VIR`Caribbean	54,086
20	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	52,235
21	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	52,096
22	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	51,789
23	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	51,126
24	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	50,192
25	Canada`CAN`Northern America	50,140
26	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	50,072
27	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	49,656
28	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	47,581
29	France`FRA`Western Europe	46,731
30	Greenland`GRL`Northern America	46,649
31	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	46,505
32	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	42,223
33	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	41,571
34	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	41,248
35	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	40,152
36	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	39,876
37	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	39,092
38	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	38,618
39	Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	38,182
40	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	35,971
41	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	35,115
42	Curaçao`CUW`Caribbean	34,813
43	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	34,741
44	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	32,834
45	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	32,148
46	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	31,949
47	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	31,771
48	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	30,142
49	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	25,485
50	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	25,474
51	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	25,256
52	Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	25,136
53	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	24,911
54	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	24,058
55	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	21,710
56	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	21,132
57	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	20,875
58	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	20,722
59	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	20,311
60	Argentina`ARG`South America	20,005
61	Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	19,927
62	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	19,856
63	Mexico`MEX`Central America	19,701
64	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	19,329
65	Chile`CHL`South America	18,907
66	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	18,825
67	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	18,718
68	Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	18,423
69	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	18,345
70	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	17,587
71	Suriname`SUR`South America	17,384
72	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	17,345
73	Uruguay`URY`South America	16,694
74	Palau`PLW`Micronesia	16,539
75	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	15,316
76	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	15,271
77	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	15,256
78	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	15,077
79	Panama`PAN`Central America	14,958
80	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	14,899
81	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	14,552
82	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	14,398
83	Brazil`BRA`South America	14,259
84	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	13,857
85	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	13,519
86	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	13,414
87	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	13,343
88	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	13,289
89	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	13,274
90	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	12,835
91	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	12,727
92	Belize`BLZ`Central America	12,589
93	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	12,272
94	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	12,078
95	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	11,923
96	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	11,475
97	Colombia`COL`South America	11,183
98	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	11,001
99	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	10,250
100	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	10,170
101	Paraguay`PRY`South America	9,902
102	Ecuador`ECU`South America	9,803
103	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	9,752
104	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	9,556
105	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	9,361
106	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	8,926
107	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	8,710
108	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	8,351
109	Guyana`GUY`South America	8,267
110	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	8,237
111	Peru`PER`South America	8,173
112	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	8,025
113	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	7,780
114	Bolivia`BOL`South America	7,626
115	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	7,577
116	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	7,527
117	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	7,517
118	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	7,329
119	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	7,228
120	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	7,034
121	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	6,849
122	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	6,741
123	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	6,599
124	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	6,578
125	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	6,569
126	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	6,464
127	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	6,324
128	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	6,055
129	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	5,905
130	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	5,810
131	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	5,426
132	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	5,192
133	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	5,155
134	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	5,090
135	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	5,024
136	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	5,003
137	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	5,001
138	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	4,841
139	Honduras`HND`Central America	4,715
140	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	4,602
141	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	4,162
142	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	4,060
143	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	4,055
144	Marshall Islands`MHL`Micronesia	4,041
145	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	3,998
146	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	3,983
147	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	3,947
148	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	3,789
149	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	3,734
150	Micronesia`FSM`Micronesia	3,701
151	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	3,674
152	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	3,669
153	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	3,508
154	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	3,373
155	India`IND`Southern Asia	3,347
156	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	3,283
157	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	3,265
158	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	3,198
159	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	3,170
160	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	3,086
161	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	3,065
162	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	2,959
163	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	2,682
164	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	2,639
165	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	2,612
166	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	2,473
167	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	2,439
168	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	2,408
169	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	2,384
170	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	2,310
171	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	2,258
172	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	2,196
173	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	2,127
174	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	2,060
175	Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	2,051
176	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	2,002
177	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	1,879
178	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	1,874
179	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	1,816
180	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	1,737
181	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	1,649
182	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	1,585
183	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	1,562
184	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	1,308
185	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	1,267
186	Niger`NER`Western Africa	1,239
187	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	1,192
188	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	1,176
189	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	997
190	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	953
191	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	883
192	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	796
193	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	778

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Luxembourg120,403
2Bermuda105,647
3Brunei103,227
4Qatar98,068
5United Arab Emirates89,828

Lowest

193Somalia778
192Ethiopia796
191Mozambique883
190DR Congo953
189Burundi997

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11,183. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
193values changed, of 193 in both
149 · 44rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Kuwait59,349 → 67,984+8,636
Macau61,626 → 67,995+6,369
Singapore68,329 → 72,498+4,169
Bermuda102,564 → 105,647+3,083
Trinidad and Tobago21,877 → 24,911+3,034

Fell most

Iraq11,144 → 6,849−4,295
Oman42,654 → 41,248−1,407
Zimbabwe5,610 → 4,602−1,009
Seychelles19,778 → 18,825−953
Qatar99,001 → 98,068−933

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

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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 2003.
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World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 193 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2003). GDP per Capita (PPP), 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-per-capita/2003

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