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GDP per Person Employed

35 years, 1991–2025 · 168 countries

GDP per person employed is how much a country’s economy produces for each person working in it — labour productivity, converted at purchasing power parities so countries can be compared. It is the closest thing there is to a ceiling on what a country’s wages can be.

This site holds every year from 1991 to 2025, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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GDP per Person Employed · the file

Newest
GDP per Person Employed, 2025
Held
35 years · 6,119 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

0135 years

Every year

Every year comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

1991bar height: countries covered, up to 1772025
Every year of GDP per Person Employed held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
GDP per Person Employed, 2025Newest168−3September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2024171−1September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2023172−4September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2022176−1September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2021177±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2020177±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2019177±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2018177±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2017177±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2016177±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2015177±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2014177±0September 10, 2026CSV
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YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
GDP per Person Employed, 2013177+1September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2012176±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2011176±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2010176±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2009176±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2008176±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2007176±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2006176±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2005176±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2004176±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2003176±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2002176+1September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2001175±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 2000175+1September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 1999174±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 1998174±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 1997174+1September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 1996173±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 1995173+1September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 1994172+1September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 1993171±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 1992171±0September 10, 2026CSV
GDP per Person Employed, 1991171—September 10, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: gdp-per-worker-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of GDP per Person Employed: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1680
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1680
GDP per person employed (constant 2021 PPP $)gdp_per_workerHeadlineThe headline figure: GDP per person employed (constant 2021 international $).Number · up to 11 decimals2,456Burundi262,554Luxembourgmiddle 47,3841680

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03177 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of GDP per Person Employed, by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa515151515151515151505050
Americas313131313131313131303029
Asia484848484848484848464543
Europe393939393939393938383838
Oceania888888888888
All177177177177177177177177176172171168

The newest 12 of 35 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2025
    − Afghanistan− United Arab Emirates− Bahamas
  • 2024
    − Lebanon
  • 2023
    − Palestine− Sudan− Syria− United States Virgin Islands
  • 2022
    − Ukraine
  • 2013
    + Djibouti
  • 2002
    + United States Virgin Islands
  • 2000
    + Afghanistan
  • 1997
    + Montenegro

Not in this dataset · 48 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDominicaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSan MarinoSeychellesSint MaartenSomalilandSouth SudanTaiwanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluVatican CityVenezuelaYemen

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Bank Group

    data.worldbank.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    GDP per Person Employed 2025

    SL.GDP.PCAP.EM.KD

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    35 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as gdp-per-worker-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/gdp-per-worker

Precision

The headline is stored to 11 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

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.

World Bank staff estimates, published via its indicator API (SL.GDP.PCAP.EM.KD), built from employment, population and GDP data.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 10, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, GDP per Person Employed, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. GDP per Person Employed, 1991–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gdp-per-worker

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. World Development Indicators. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

GDP per Person Employed: questions and answers

What is the GDP per Person Employed?

GDP per person employed is how much a country’s economy produces for each person working in it — labour productivity, converted at purchasing power parities so countries can be compared. It is the closest thing there is to a ceiling on what a country’s wages can be.

Which years of the GDP per Person Employed can I download?

All 35, from 1991 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?

No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.

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