Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2017 compilation

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2017 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 · 2017 reading	75.65	84.28	income	2017
2	QatarQATWestern Asia	73.36	88.30	income	2017.5
3	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2017 reading	72.17	86.61	income	2017
4	LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2017 reading	71.28	86.33	income	2017
5	AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2017 reading	67.82	76.35	income	2017
6	IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2017 reading	63.93	71.23	income	2017
7	United StatesUSANorthern America · 2017 reading	63.92	84.38	income	2017
8	CanadaCANNorthern America · 2017 reading	61.87	73.30	income	2017
9	NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2017 reading	60.74	69.72	income	2017
10	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2017 reading	60.41	70.36	income	2017
11	GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2017 reading	60.32	70.86	income	2017
12	BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2017 reading	58.12	64.61	income	2017
13	FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2017 reading	56.67	67.18	income	2017
14	FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2017 reading	55.87	64.12	income	2017
15	SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2017 reading	53.72	61.55	income	2017
16	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2017 reading	52.76	62.19	income	2017
17	South KoreaKOREastern Asia · 2017 reading	46.53	55.46	income	2017
18	ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2017 reading	46.44	54.82	income	2017
19	MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2017 reading	46.43	52.71	income	2017
20	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2017 reading	44.84	54.07	income	2017
21	CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2017 reading	44.01	52.81	income	2017
22	TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2017 reading	42.81	51.64	income	2017
23	SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2017 reading	42.58	49.93	income	2017
24	JapanJPNEastern Asia · 2017 reading	41.03	47.48	income	2017
25	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2017 reading	40.81	44.86	income	2017

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 19.51. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

  HighestQatar88.30

  LowestZimbabwe5.06

  Middle country: 27.86

• +11 / −16countries joined / left
• 68values changed, of 68 in both
• 57 · 11rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mauritius+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Barbados− Ghana− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Malawi− Palestine− Rwanda− South Sudan− Eswatini− Uganda− Vietnam

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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