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GDP per Capita (PPP), 2017

2017, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2017 covers 199 countries. Macau is highest, at 133,322.6; Burundi is lowest, at 1,020.8. The middle country reads 16,128.6. Against 2016, 199 values changed (161 up, 38 down), the same countries are covered.

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GDP per Capita (PPP) · Data for 2017

HighestMacau

133,322.6

LowestBurundi

1,020.8

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), 2017, 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 199 countries · select a heading to sort

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2017: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MacauMACEastern Asia133,322.6
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe132,169.8
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia117,493.0
4QatarQATWestern Asia115,064.9
5BermudaBMUNorthern America96,441.3
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe89,664.9
7IrelandIRLNorthern Europe87,731.8
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe79,333.7
9BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia78,966.9
10Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean74,599.7
11United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia72,529.0
12GreenlandGRLNorthern America66,297.2
13United StatesUSANorthern America66,164.0
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe65,666.0
15Hong KongHKGEastern Asia65,662.9
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe65,462.5
17Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe65,461.9
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe64,989.4
19AndorraANDSouthern Europe63,239.7
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe62,535.8
21GermanyDEUWestern Europe61,965.4
22SwedenSWENorthern Europe59,769.0
23San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe59,524.6
24BelgiumBELWestern Europe58,529.3
25Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia57,942.5

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Macau133,322.6
  2. 2Luxembourg132,169.8
  3. 3Singapore117,493.0
  4. 4Qatar115,064.9
  5. 5Bermuda96,441.3

Lowest

  1. 199Burundi1,020.8
  2. 198Central African Republic1,103.9
  3. 197DR Congo1,395.7
  4. 196Niger1,515.5
  5. 195Somalia1,527.7

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 16,128.6. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 199 in both
  • 161 · 38rose · 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 2017.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 199 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 (2017). GDP per Capita (PPP), 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-per-capita/2017

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07Questions

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP per capita (PPP) in GDP per Capita (PPP), 2017?

Macau, at 133,322.6, of the 199 countries in the file.

What year does GDP per Capita (PPP), 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does GDP per Capita (PPP), 2017 cover?

199.

Where can I download GDP per Capita (PPP), 2017?

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), 2017 the newest?

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

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