CHART 1.1 |
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, 2006
converted at PPP rates |
- Norway, the United States, and Ireland were the countries with the highest GDP per capita.
- The other economies showed levels of GDP per capita between 86 percent (Hong Kong SAR) and 26 percent (Mexico) of the U.S. level.
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NOTE: Hong Kong SAR stands for Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is the number of foreign currency units required to buy goods and services in a foreign country equivalent to what can be bought with one dollar in the United States.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics and World Bank.
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