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GNI per Capita (PPP), 2005

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

GNI per Capita (PPP), 2005 covers 125 countries. United Arab Emirates is highest, at 103,611.8; Mozambique is lowest, at 900.5. The middle country reads 13,607.7. Against 2004, 123 values changed (109 up, 14 down), 2 countries joined.

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GNI per Capita (PPP) · Data for 2005

HighestUnited Arab Emirates

103,611.8

LowestMozambique

900.5

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of GNI 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 125 countries · select a heading to sort

GNI per Capita (PPP), 2005: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia103,611.8
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe95,775.1
3BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia81,965.3
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe80,699.7
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe79,740.7
6SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia78,101.4
7MacauMACEastern Asia62,452.7
8United StatesUSANorthern America59,228.6
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe58,684.5
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe58,438.5
11AustriaAUTWestern Europe58,358.5
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe57,585.2
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe56,159.6
14Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia55,234.3
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe53,786.0
16IrelandIRLNorthern Europe53,499.6
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe53,470.0
18ItalyITASouthern Europe51,833.1
19GermanyDEUWestern Europe51,811.4
20CanadaCANNorthern America50,044.9
21Hong KongHKGEastern Asia49,248.5
22BahrainBHRWestern Asia48,767.7
23FranceFRAWestern Europe48,667.6
24United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe47,537.8
25AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand44,196.1

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United Arab Emirates103,611.8
  2. 2Luxembourg95,775.1
  3. 3Brunei81,965.3
  4. 4Switzerland80,699.7
  5. 5Norway79,740.7

Lowest

  1. 125Mozambique900.5
  2. 124DR Congo1,085.7
  3. 123Rwanda1,291.4
  4. 122Niger1,329.1
  5. 121Burkina Faso1,472.6

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13,607.7. “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.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 123values changed, of 123 in both
  • 109 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Malta30,237.0 → 29,408.5−828.5
  • Mauritius16,847.1 → 16,134.4−712.6
  • Tonga5,602.3 → 5,344.8−257.4
  • Belize11,336.3 → 11,110.4−225.9
  • Togo2,324.8 → 2,116.0−208.8
+ Equatorial Guinea+ Chad

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 125 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). GNI per Capita (PPP), 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gni-per-capita/2005

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07Questions

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

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

United Arab Emirates, at 103,611.8, of the 125 countries in the file.

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

2005.

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

125.

Where can I download GNI 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 GNI per Capita (PPP), 2005 the newest?

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

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