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GDP per Capita (PPP), 2020

2020, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2020 covers 199 countries. Luxembourg is highest, at 129,865.6; Burundi is lowest, at 1,027.6. The middle country reads 15,630.9. Against 2019, 199 values changed (22 up, 177 down), the same countries are covered.

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GDP per Capita (PPP) · Data for 2020

HighestLuxembourg

129,865.6

LowestBurundi

1,027.6

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), 2020, 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), 2020: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe129,865.6
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia116,684.2
3QatarQATWestern Asia103,061.9
4IrelandIRLNorthern Europe101,793.4
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe89,012.3
6BermudaBMUNorthern America88,484.8
7BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia80,280.9
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe79,270.9
9Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean72,183.1
10GreenlandGRLNorthern America68,533.7
11United StatesUSANorthern America67,406.8
12United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia66,808.6
13Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe66,037.9
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe65,379.3
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe64,862.2
16Hong KongHKGEastern Asia61,328.5
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe60,617.1
18GermanyDEUWestern Europe60,299.6
19AustriaAUTWestern Europe60,276.3
20MacauMACEastern Asia59,662.5
21SwedenSWENorthern Europe59,458.3
22Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia57,420.7
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe57,333.5
24AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand57,260.5
25San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe55,998.1

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg129,865.6
  2. 2Singapore116,684.2
  3. 3Qatar103,061.9
  4. 4Ireland101,793.4
  5. 5Norway89,012.3

Lowest

  1. 199Burundi1,027.6
  2. 198Central African Republic1,136.6
  3. 197DR Congo1,361.0
  4. 196Somalia1,396.1
  5. 195Mozambique1,466.1

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 15,630.9. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 199values changed, of 199 in both
  • 22 · 177rose · 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 2020.

  • 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 (2020). GDP per Capita (PPP), 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-per-capita/2020

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07Questions

GDP per Capita (PPP), 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GDP per capita (PPP) in GDP per Capita (PPP), 2020?

Luxembourg, at 129,865.6, of the 199 countries in the file.

What year does GDP per Capita (PPP), 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does GDP per Capita (PPP), 2020 cover?

199.

Where can I download GDP per Capita (PPP), 2020?

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), 2020 the newest?

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

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