1 Qatar $106,283.96
2 Luxembourg $79,649.49
3 Singapore $61,046.96
4 Norway $54,479.06
5 Hong Kong SAR $50,716.14
6 Brunei Darussalam $50,440.03
7 United States $49,601.41
8 United Arab Emirates $48,434.60
9 Switzerland $44,015.97
10 Kuwait $43,773.88
11 Austria $42,589.72
12 Netherlands $42,319.57
13 Australia $41,467.65
14 Canada $41,335.06
15 Sweden $41,129.94
16 Ireland $40,443.26
17 Taiwan Province of China $39,217.78
18 Iceland $39,082.93
19 Germany $38,695.94
20 Belgium $37,995.23
21 Denmark $37,713.42
22 Finland $36,736.33
23 United Kingdom $36,605.02
24 Japan $36,040.14
25 France $35,613.45
26 Korea $33,171.53
27 The Bahamas $31,784.15
28 Israel $31,514.88
29 Spain $30,315.48
30 Italy $30,132.59
31 Slovenia $28,704.93
32 Cyprus $28,645.62
33 New Zealand $28,372.27
34 Bahrain $27,907.52
35 Czech Republic $27,380.56
36 Oman $27,349.80
37 Malta $25,874.89
38 Saudi Arabia $25,465.98
39 Seychelles $25,439.92
40 Greece $25,343.24
41 Slovak Republic $24,144.78
42 Barbados $23,870.46
43 Portugal $22,853.38
44 Poland $21,310.29
45 Estonia $21,059.80
46 Trinidad and Tobago $20,573.45
47 Hungary $19,891.57
48 Equatorial Guinea $19,818.11
49 Lithuania $19,600.89
50 Antigua and Barbuda $18,398.82
51 Croatia $18,331.02
52 Argentina $18,318.72
53 Chile $17,974.20
54 Russia $17,691.07
55 Gabon $17,053.47
56 Botswana $16,578.59
57 Latvia $16,235.03
58 Malaysia $16,186.01
59 Lebanon $15,985.50
60 Uruguay $15,785.94
61 Belarus $15,755.83
62 St. Kitts and Nevis $15,616.80
63 Mauritius $15,595.27
64 Mexico $15,177.51
65 Panama $15,082.00
66 Turkey $14,852.98
67 Grenada $14,238.18
68 Dominica $14,202.63
69 Bulgaria $14,020.60
70 Kazakhstan $13,926.37
71 Islamic Republic of Iran $13,071.63
72 Venezuela $13,070.44
73 St. Lucia $12,927.29
74 Romania $12,843.14
75 Costa Rica $12,424.65
76 Brazil $12,181.34
77 St. Vincent and the Grenadines $11,863.63
78 Montenegro $11,677.49
79 South Africa $11,273.08
80 Serbia $10,810.97
81 Colombia $10,742.40
82 Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia $10,692.14
83 Peru $10,588.68
84 Azerbaijan $10,568.38
85 Libya $10,129.61
86 Thailand $9,979.23
87 Suriname $9,953.92
88 Tunisia $9,706.59
89 Dominican Republic $9,654.67
90 Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste $9,467.76
91 Jamaica $9,199.01
92 China $9,142.67
93 Maldives $9,077.88
94 Ecuador $8,854.00
95 Belize $8,412.08
96 Turkmenistan $8,366.94
97 Bosnia and Herzegovina $8,250.62
98 Albania $7,840.62
99 Guyana $7,829.75
100 El Salvador $7,745.98
101 Namibia $7,694.44
102 Ukraine $7,584.06
103 Algeria $7,541.85
104 Tonga $7,510.45
105 Bhutan $6,615.54
106 Egypt $6,594.00
107 Angola $6,356.02
108 Sri Lanka $6,135.47
109 Samoa $6,104.76
110 Jordan $6,001.76
111 Georgia $5,929.33
112 Kiribati $5,846.24
113 Armenia $5,604.75
114 Mongolia $5,548.33
115 Paraguay $5,293.94
116 Morocco $5,251.65
117 Swaziland $5,247.87
118 Guatemala $5,164.71
119 Vanuatu $5,064.60
120 Bolivia $4,995.97
121 Indonesia $4,943.57
122 Fiji $4,728.06
123 Republic of Congo $4,656.67
124 Honduras $4,461.21
125 Iraq $4,271.60
126 Philippines $4,214.39
127 Cape Verde $4,112.26
128 India $3,944.30
129 Vietnam $3,549.95
130 Moldova $3,539.87
131 Uzbekistan $3,536.09
132 Solomon Islands $3,348.13
133 Nicaragua $3,325.13
134 Ghana $3,312.71
135 Lao People's Democratic Republic $2,865.74
136 Pakistan $2,859.87
137 Djibouti $2,734.77
138 Nigeria $2,722.25
139 Papua New Guinea $2,694.05
140 Kyrgyz Republic $2,497.67
141 Sudan $2,495.90
142 Cambodia $2,360.69
143 S„o TomÈ and PrÌncipe $2,359.13
144 Cameroon $2,321.73
145 Mauritania $2,268.69
146 Republic of Yemen $2,248.62
147 Tajikistan $2,173.02
148 Lesotho $2,072.87
149 Chad $1,969.91
150 Senegal $1,921.50
151 The Gambia $1,883.85
152 Kenya $1,807.53
153 Bangladesh $1,790.27
154 Zambia $1,714.61
155 CÙte d'Ivoire $1,690.40
156 Tanzania $1,600.72
157 Burkina Faso $1,524.06
158 Benin $1,510.26
159 Rwanda $1,430.85
160 Myanmar $1,393.89
161 Nepal $1,388.38
162 Uganda $1,341.40
163 Haiti $1,328.41
164 Comoros $1,251.73
165 Guinea-Bissau $1,184.24
166 Mali $1,173.64
167 Mozambique $1,149.96
168 Sierra Leone $1,138.46
169 Ethiopia $1,135.16
170 Guinea $1,119.53
171 Islamic Republic of Afghanistan $1,007.95
172 Madagascar $948.86
173 Togo $926.67
174 Malawi $882.67
175 Niger $863.46
176 Central African Republic $789.21
177 Eritrea $776.98
178 Burundi $639.51
179 Zimbabwe $516.47
180 Liberia $490.41
181 Democratic Republic of Congo $364.48
Country  2012 (Estimates)
Nigeria- 138

for some of those countries listed at top the gap between richest and poorest is far wider than the same measure of margin for nigeria. if you want an accurate. perspective on the countries perform bring us their poorest.

wth? Even Ghana is shitting on Nigeria. Now this is where I have problems with those agencies that keep telling us Nigeria will be amongst top 20 economies in the world by 2020 or 2050. Really funny from this statistics.

Dudu_Negro: for some of those countries listed at top the gap between richest and poorest is far wider than the same measure of margin for nigeria. if you want an accurate. perspective on the countries perform bring us their poorest.

Why don't you do that yourself since u have a problem with this.

This isn't d list for worldwide GDP, but GDP per head. They are diff @OP

See as African countries take occupy the 2nd Half.. Its just so sad,

FreeGlobe: wth? Even Ghana is shitting on Nigeria. Now this is where I have problems with those agencies that keep telling us Nigeria will be amongst top 20 economies in the world by 2020 or 2050. Really funny from this statistics.

Ghana's economy would never become a top 20 before Nigeria all things being equal. They are on par with Lagos state and not the entire Nigeria. They have few citizens, this is why they can afford to be generating less than 2000MW and still have 24hr power supply.

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I prefer to look at the Gini coefficient when considering economic figures. GDP per capita calculations don't take income disparities into account.

Look at Equitorial Guinea in 48^th place. Can you honestly say that the life of the average citizen of that country is better than that of a Nigerian, despite the fact that we're number 138 on the list?

Equitorial guinea, I know nothing about but that doesn't take out the fact that there are other smaller African countries out there who their citizens live better than an average Nigerian. Just because we are Nigerians doesn't give us the chance of being on top of other smaller nations in Africa. There are two standard methods of measuring the wealth of countries and how rich or poor its inhabitants are. The measure most often used is Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which represents the size of a country’s economy. A refinement of this is per-capita GDP, which is a measure of the average welfare and affluence, or poverty, of residents of a country. However, GDP and per-capita GDP are less useful when comparing economies across national boundaries – which one must do to determine the richest or poorest countries in the world – because GDP is expressed in a country’s local currency.

Read more: http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global-database/economic-data/11934-richest-poorest-countries.html#ixzz2M1BRqIIr
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mayorme: Equitorial guinea, I know nothing about but that doesn't take out the fact that there are other smaller African countries out there who their citizens live better than an average Nigerian. Just because we are Nigerians doesn't give us the chance of being on top of other smaller nations in Africa. There are two standard methods of measuring the wealth of countries and how rich or poor its inhabitants are. The measure most often used is Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which represents the size of a country’s economy. A refinement of this is per-capita GDP, which is a measure of the average welfare and affluence, or poverty, of residents of a country. However, GDP and per-capita GDP are less useful when comparing economies across national boundaries – which one must do to determine the richest or poorest countries in the world – because GDP is expressed in a country’s local currency.

Read more: http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global-database/economic-data/11934-richest-poorest-countries.html#ixzz2M1BRqIIr
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You're reinforcing my point. That's why GDP figures are not to be taken as a silver-bullet mechanism for measurement of economic performance. They must be weighed taking their biggest flaw into consideration (i.e. the failure to capture the disparity of income within an economy). That's where the Gini coefficient comes in.

Read more here.