Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2016 compilation

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2016 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Median income or consumption per person (2021 PPP $ a day)	Mean income or consumption per person (2021 PPP $ a day)	Survey measures	Survey year
1	NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2016 reading	75.84	85.95	income	2016
2	LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2016 reading	73.08	86.17	income	2016
3	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2016 reading	72.07	86.88	income	2016
4	AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2016 reading	67.78	77.38	income	2016
5	United StatesUSANorthern America · 2016 reading	62.98	83.32	income	2016
6	NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2016 reading	60.85	69.17	income	2016
7	CanadaCANNorthern America · 2016 reading	60.14	70.72	income	2016
8	IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2016 reading	59.95	68.74	income	2016
9	GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2016 reading	59.78	70.25	income	2016
10	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2016 reading	59.58	68.70	income	2016
11	BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2016 reading	57.96	63.90	income	2016
12	FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2016 reading	57.04	67.57	income	2016
13	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand · 2016 reading	56.42	69.40	income	2016
14	FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2016 reading	54.73	62.81	income	2016
15	SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2016 reading	53.68	61.59	income	2016
16	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2016 reading	52.61	62.56	income	2016
17	ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2016 reading	46.19	53.88	income	2016
18	MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2016 reading	46.08	52.35	income	2016
19	South KoreaKOREastern Asia · 2016 reading	44.77	53.66	income	2016
20	SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2016 reading	42.01	49.40	income	2016
21	CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2016 reading	41.93	51.74	income	2016
22	TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2016 reading	41.72	50.24	income	2016
23	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2016 reading	41.20	50.89	income	2016
24	JapanJPNEastern Asia · 2016 reading	40.41	46.77	income	2016
25	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2016 reading	40.01	43.83	income	2016

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 16.93. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Mean income or consumption per person (2021 PPP $ a day)

  HighestSwitzerland86.88

  LowestSouth Sudan2.34

  Middle country: 23.39

• +19 / −22countries joined / left
• 65values changed, of 65 in both
• 52 · 13rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Argentina+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Ghana+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Botswana− Chile− Côte d’Ivoire− Cabo Verde− Egypt− Ethiopia− Gambia− Kenya− Saint Lucia− Myanmar− Malaysia− Namibia− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Togo− Tajikistan− Tonga− Tunisia− Zambia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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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.

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