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GNI per Capita (PPP), 2021

2021, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

GNI per Capita (PPP), 2021 covers 197 countries. Qatar is highest, at 115,037; Burundi is lowest, at 1,024. The middle country reads 15,904. Against 2020, 158 values changed (133 up, 25 down), 39 countries joined.

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GNI per Capita (PPP) · Data for 2021

HighestQatar

115,037

LowestBurundi

1,024

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), 2021, 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 197 countries · select a heading to sort

GNI per Capita (PPP), 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia115,037
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia113,751
3BermudaBMUNorthern America96,262
4LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe92,641
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe90,522
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe83,261
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe80,842
8BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia78,750
9MacauMACEastern Asia72,993
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe72,080
11United StatesUSANorthern America71,782
12Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe70,786
13Hong KongHKGEastern Asia70,450
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe69,674
15United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia68,461
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe64,725
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe64,542
18Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean64,426
19AustriaAUTWestern Europe64,007
20AndorraANDSouthern Europe63,828
21Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia63,438
22IcelandISLNorthern Europe62,657
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe61,451
24KuwaitKWTWestern Asia58,893
25San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe58,352

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar115,037
  2. 2Singapore113,751
  3. 3Bermuda96,262
  4. 4Luxembourg92,641
  5. 5Norway90,522

Lowest

  1. 197Burundi1,024
  2. 196Central African Republic1,206
  3. 195DR Congo1,355
  4. 194Somalia1,387
  5. 193Mozambique1,427

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 15,904. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +39 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 133 · 25rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Aruba+ Andorra+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Azerbaijan+ Burundi+ Barbados+ China+ Curaçao+ Cayman Islands+ Dominica+ Fiji+ Faroe Islands+ Micronesia+ Grenada+ Guyana+ Jamaica+ Jordan+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Laos+ Liberia+ Saint Lucia+ Myanmar+ Nigeria+ Nauru+ Papua New Guinea+ Puerto Rico+ Qatar+ Suriname+ Sint Maarten+ Syria+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Thailand+ Turkmenistan+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Türkiye+ Tuvalu+ Uzbekistan+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ Zambia

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 2021.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 197 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 (2021). GNI per Capita (PPP), 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gni-per-capita/2021

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07Questions

GNI per Capita (PPP), 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest GNI per capita (PPP) in GNI per Capita (PPP), 2021?

Qatar, at 115,037, of the 197 countries in the file.

What year does GNI per Capita (PPP), 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does GNI per Capita (PPP), 2021 cover?

197.

Where can I download GNI per Capita (PPP), 2021?

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), 2021 the newest?

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

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