Reading these tables
Size and size per person are different questions
A large economy can be a poor one, and a small economy can be a rich one. GDP answers how big the country is; GDP per capita answers what that means for one person living in it.
Market rates flatter some countries and punish others
Converting every economy at today's exchange rate makes places with cheap rent and cheap food look poorer than they live. The PPP table adjusts for what money actually buys, and countries move a long way between the two.
A year is stated on every table
These figures are compiled with a lag and revised afterwards, so two sources rarely agree to the decimal. Each page names the dataset and the year it used rather than presenting one number as the truth.
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A rank among countries is not a percentile of people
These four tables count countries, not people. The “top 5%” shown for your country is its rank divided by the number of countries that reported that year — tenth of two hundred is top 5% — and every country is one row whatever its size. A country that has not yet filed its 2024 figure is left out rather than estimated, and everyone below it moves up a place without anything changing at home.
How the highlighted country is chosen
The row picked out in colour is a guess from your browser's language setting: a tag with a region, like en-GB, names the country; a bare language is widened to where it is most used; failing both, the page uses the country of its own language — the United States for English. Your IP address is not used, because it answers a different question: an address says where you are right now, a language setting says whose figures you want. A wrong guess can be changed above the table, and the choice stays in this browser.
Common questions
Where do the figures come from?
World Bank open data, which compiles what national statistical offices report. Each page names the indicator and the year it used, so a figure that looks wrong can be checked at the source.
Why is the latest year missing for some countries?
Countries report at different speeds and some do not report at all in a given year. Rather than filling the gap with an estimate or reaching back to an older year, a country without a figure for that year is left out of the table, so the count of countries can differ between tables.
What is the difference between GDP per capita and PPP?
The first converts every economy at market exchange rates; the second adjusts for what money actually buys locally. Countries where rent and food are cheap rise on the PPP table, sometimes by many places.
Are Korean statistics here too?
Salary, household income, net worth and Korean share rankings exist, but they are built from Korean tax and survey data and only make sense inside Korea, so they are shown on the Korean pages only.
Is anything I type or choose sent anywhere?
No. There is no server; the tables are sorted in the browser from figures bundled with the page. The country you choose is kept in this browser's own storage and nowhere else. No location lookup is made.