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GDP per Capita (PPP), 2005

2005, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2005 covers 193 countries. Luxembourg is highest, at 124,872.0; Somalia is lowest, at 830.8. The middle country reads 12,022.5. Against 2004, 193 values changed (167 up, 26 down), the same countries are covered.

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GDP per Capita (PPP) · Data for 2005

HighestLuxembourg

124,872.0

LowestSomalia

830.8

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), 2005, 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 193 countries · select a heading to sort

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2005: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe124,872.0
2QatarQATWestern Asia113,384.3
3BermudaBMUNorthern America109,340.0
4BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia99,795.7
5United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia92,750.9
6MacauMACEastern Asia87,185.5
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe83,955.3
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia82,547.5
9San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe81,632.2
10KuwaitKWTWestern Asia78,193.9
11SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe71,414.3
12AndorraANDSouthern Europe65,114.8
13IrelandIRLNorthern Europe63,579.7
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe60,798.1
15United StatesUSANorthern America59,612.4
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe58,549.1
17NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe58,422.0
18United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean57,838.1
19AustriaAUTWestern Europe56,890.2
20Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia54,931.8
21BelgiumBELWestern Europe54,346.9
22BahrainBHRWestern Asia53,478.3
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe53,198.7
24FinlandFINNorthern Europe52,744.0
25CanadaCANNorthern America52,356.5

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg124,872.0
  2. 2Qatar113,384.3
  3. 3Bermuda109,340.0
  4. 4Brunei99,795.7
  5. 5United Arab Emirates92,750.9

Lowest

  1. 193Somalia830.8
  2. 192Ethiopia952.1
  3. 191Mozambique970.4
  4. 190Burundi978.5
  5. 189DR Congo1,016.6

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12,022.5. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 193values changed, of 193 in both
  • 167 · 26rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Maldives15,958.7 → 13,942.9−2,015.8
  • Brunei101,497.8 → 99,795.7−1,702.1
  • Aruba40,101.8 → 38,926.5−1,175.3
  • Puerto Rico43,355.8 → 42,555.7−800.1
  • Curaçao34,288.7 → 33,651.5−637.2

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 2005.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 193 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 (2005). GDP per Capita (PPP), 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-per-capita/2005

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07Questions

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP per capita (PPP) in GDP per Capita (PPP), 2005?

Luxembourg, at 124,872.0, of the 193 countries in the file.

What year does GDP per Capita (PPP), 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does GDP per Capita (PPP), 2005 cover?

193.

Where can I download GDP per Capita (PPP), 2005?

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), 2005 the newest?

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

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