World Development Indicators

Size of the economy
Population	Surface area	Population density	Gross national income, Atlas method	Gross national income per capita, Atlas method	Purchasing power parity gross national income		Gross domestic product
						Per capita		Per capita
millions	sq. km thousands	people per sq. km	$ billions	$	$ billions	$	% growth	% growth
2012	2011	2011	2012	2012	2012	2012	2012	2012

Afghanistan	30	652	45	20.4	680	46.6	1,560	14.4	11.6
Albania	3	29	115	12.7	4,030	29.3	9,280	1.6	1.3
Algeria	38	2,382	16	193.2	5,020	321.6	8,360	3.3	1.4
American Samoa	0	0	276	..	..	..	..	..	..
Andorra	0	0	166	..	..	..	..	..	..
Angola	21	1,247	16	95.4	4,580	112.4	5,400	6.8	3.5
Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	200	1.1	12,480	1.7	18,920	2.8	1.8
Argentina	41	2,780	15	..	..	..	..	..	..
Armenia	3	30	104	11.0	3,720	26.2	8,820	7.2	7.0
Aruba	0	0	566	..	..	..	..	..	..
Australia	23	7,741	3	1,346.6	59,360	982.2	43,300	3.4	1.8
Austria	8	84	102	403.4	47,660	367.2	43,390	0.9	0.4
Azerbaijan	9	87	111	57.9	6,220	86.5	9,310	2.2	0.8
Bahamas, The	0	14	37	7.7	20,600	10.8	29,020	1.8	0.3
Bahrain	1	1	1,701	18.6	14,820	23.7	18,910	3.4	1.4
Bangladesh	155	144	1,174	129.3	840	314.2	2,030	6.2	5.0
Barbados	0	0	655	4.3	15,080	7.3	25,670	0.0	-0.5
Belarus	9	208	47	61.8	6,530	141.6	14,960	1.5	1.6
Belgium	11	31	365	497.6	44,660	444.1	39,860	-0.1	-1.0
Belize	0	23	14	1.4	4,490	2.5	7,630	5.3	2.8
Benin	10	115	87	7.5	750	15.6	1,550	5.4	2.6
Bermuda	0	0	1,291	6.8	104,590	..	..	-4.9	-5.2
Bhutan	1	38	19	1.8	2,420	4.6	6,200	9.4	7.6
Bolivia	10	1,099	10	23.3	2,220	51.2	4,880	5.2	3.5
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4	51	75	18.2	4,750	37.0	9,650	-0.7	-0.6
Botswana	2	582	4	15.3	7,650	32.2	16,060	4.2	3.3
Brazil	199	8,515	23	2,311.1	11,630	2,291.0	11,530	0.9	0.0
Brunei Darussalam	0	6	77	..	..	..	..	2.2	0.7
Bulgaria	7	111	68	50.0	6,840	112.9	15,450	0.8	1.4
Burkina Faso	16	274	58	10.9	670	24.5	1,490	10.0	6.9
Burundi	10	28	372	2.4	240	5.4	550	4.0	0.8
Cambodia	15	181	83	13.0	880	34.6	2,330	7.3	5.4
Cameroon	22	475	45	25.3	1,170	49.3	2,270	4.6	2.0
Canada	35	9,985	4	1,777.9	50,970	1,483.6	42,530	1.7	0.6
Cape Verde	0	4	122	1.9	3,830	2.4	4,930	2.5	1.7
Cayman Islands	0	0	236	..	..	..	..	..	..
Central African Republic	5	623	7	2.3	510	4.9	1,080	6.9	4.8
Chad	12	1,284	10	9.6	770	20.1	1,620	8.9	5.7
Channel Islands	0	0	844	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chile	17	756	23	249.9	14,310	372.1	21,310	5.6	4.6
China	1,351	9,600	144	7,731.3	5,720	12,205.8	9,040	7.8	7.3
Hong Kong SAR, China	7	1	6,787	261.6	36,560	373.4	52,190	1.5	0.3
Macao SAR, China	1	0	19,510	30.4	55,720	37.1	68,000	9.9	7.9
Colombia	48	1,142	42	334.8	7,020	476.4	9,990	4.2	2.8
Comoros	1	2	376	0.6	840	0.9	1,210	3.0	0.5
Congo, Dem. Rep.	66	2,345	28	15.4	230	25.5	390	7.2	4.3
Congo, Rep.	4	342	12	11.1	2,550	15.0	3,450	3.8	1.1
Costa Rica	5	51	93	42.4	8,820	60.1	12,500	5.1	3.6
Cote d'Ivoire	20	322	61	24.2	1,220	38.2	1,920	9.5	7.0
Croatia	4	57	76	57.6	13,490	86.2	20,200	-2.0	-1.7
Cuba	11	110	106	66.4	5,890	..	..	2.7	2.8
Curacao	0	0	340	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cyprus	1	9	121	22.8	26,110	26.1	29,840	-2.4	-4.9
Czech Republic	11	79	136	190.5	18,120	259.9	24,720	-1.0	-1.2
Denmark	6	43	131	334.6	59,850	242.8	43,430	-0.4	-0.7
Djibouti	1	23	37	..	..	..	..	..	..
Dominica	0	1	95	0.5	6,440	0.9	11,980	-1.7	-2.1
Dominican Republic	10	49	210	56.3	5,470	99.3	9,660	3.9	2.6
Ecuador	15	256	61	80.1	5,170	147.0	9,490	5.1	3.5
Egypt, Arab Rep.	81	1,001	80	240.3	2,980	520.7	6,450	2.2	0.5
El Salvador	6	21	302	22.6	3,590	42.3	6,720	1.9	1.3
Equatorial Guinea	1	28	26	10.0	13,560	13.7	18,570	2.5	-0.3
Eritrea	6	118	59	2.8	450	3.4	550	7.0	3.6
Estonia	1	45	32	21.6	16,150	30.1	22,500	3.9	4.0
Ethiopia	92	1,104	89	34.7	380	101.5	1,110	8.5	5.7
Faeroe Islands	0	1	35	..	..	..	..	..	..
Fiji	1	18	48	3.6	4,110	4.1	4,690	2.3	1.5
Finland	5	338	18	251.7	46,490	207.0	38,220	-0.8	-1.3
France	66	549	119	2,742.9	41,750	2,412.6	36,720	0.0	-0.5
French Polynesia	0	4	74	..	..	..	..	..	..
Gabon	2	268	6	16.4	10,040	23.0	14,090	5.6	3.1
Gambia, The	2	11	171	0.9	510	3.3	1,830	6.0	2.7
Georgia	5	70	78	14.8	3,270	26.0	5,770	6.0	5.3
Germany	82	357	235	3,624.6	44,260	3,458.2	42,230	0.7	0.6
Ghana	25	239	109	39.4	1,550	48.4	1,910	7.9	5.6
Greece	11	132	88	262.4	23,260	287.2	25,460	-6.4	-6.2
Greenland	0	410	0	..	..	..	..	..	..
Grenada	0	0	309	0.8	7,220	1.1	10,350	0.6	0.2
Guam	0	1	298	..	..	..	..	..	..
Guatemala	15	109	137	47.1	3,120	73.6	4,880	3.0	0.4
Guinea	11	246	45	5.0	440	11.1	970	3.9	1.3
Guinea-Bissau	2	36	58	0.9	510	1.8	1,100	-6.7	-8.9
Guyana	1	215	4	2.7	3,410	2.7	3,340	4.8	4.2
Haiti	10	28	364	7.7	760	12.4	1,220	2.8	1.4
Honduras	8	112	70	16.8	2,120	30.8	3,880	3.9	1.8
Hungary	10	93	110	123.1	12,380	205.9	20,710	-1.7	-1.4
Iceland	0	103	3	12.3	38,330	10.7	33,480	1.4	1.0
India	1,237	3,287	411	1,955.0	1,580	4,832.0	3,910	3.2	1.9
Indonesia	247	1,905	135	844.0	3,420	1,168.7	4,730	6.2	4.9
Iran, Islamic Rep.	76	1,745	46	..	..	..	..	..	..
Iraq	33	435	73	191.2	5,870	137.9	4,230	8.4	5.7
Ireland	5	70	66	179.5	39,110	163.7	35,670	0.9	0.7
Isle of Man	0	1	149	..	..	..	..	..	..
Israel	8	22	359	220.4	28,380	218.0	28,070	3.4	1.5
Italy	61	301	206	2,062.5	33,860	2,005.3	32,920	-2.5	-2.8
Jamaica	3	11	250	13.9	5,120	..	..	-0.5	-0.7
Japan	128	378	351	6,107.1	47,880	4,630.7	36,300	1.9	2.1
Jordan	6	89	70	29.5	4,670	37.8	5,980	2.7	0.4
Kazakhstan	17	2,725	6	164.3	9,780	197.9	11,780	5.0	3.5
Kenya	43	580	74	37.2	860	74.7	1,730	4.6	1.8
Kiribati	0	1	123	0.3	2,520	0.4	3,870	2.8	1.2
Korea, Dem. Rep.	25	121	205	..	..	..	..	..	..
Korea, Rep.	50	100	513	1,133.8	22,670	1,548.7	30,970	2.0	1.6
Kosovo	2	11	165	6.5	3,600	..	..	2.7	1.8
Kuwait	3	18	175	131.9	44,100	142.9	47,770	6.3	1.8
Kyrgyz Republic	6	200	29	5.5	990	12.4	2,230	-0.9	-2.1
Lao PDR	7	237	28	8.4	1,270	17.9	2,690	8.2	6.2
Latvia	2	64	33	28.6	14,120	44.4	21,920	5.0	6.7
Lebanon	4	10	428	40.7	9,190	62.7	14,160	1.4	0.4
Lesotho	2	30	67	2.8	1,380	4.5	2,170	4.0	2.8
Liberia	4	111	42	1.5	370	2.4	580	10.2	7.3
Libya	6	1,760	3	..	..	..	..	..	..
Liechtenstein	0	0	227	..	..	..	..	..	..
Lithuania	3	65	48	41.3	13,830	70.3	23,560	3.7	5.3
Luxembourg	1	3	200	38.1	71,620	32.0	60,160	-0.2	-2.6
Macedonia, FYR	2	26	83	9.7	4,620	24.3	11,540	-0.3	-0.3
Madagascar	22	587	37	9.7	430	20.8	930	3.1	0.3
Malawi	16	118	164	5.0	320	11.6	730	1.9	-1.0
Malaysia	29	331	88	287.0	9,820	475.8	16,270	5.6	3.9
Maldives	0	0	1,107	1.9	5,750	2.6	7,560	3.4	1.4
Mali	15	1,240	12	9.8	660	16.9	1,140	-1.2	-4.1
Malta	0	0	1,302	8.3	19,760	11.3	27,000	1.0	0.6
Marshall Islands	0	0	292	0.2	4,040	..	..	1.9	1.8
Mauritania	4	1,031	4	4.2	1,110	9.4	2,480	7.6	4.9
Mauritius	1	2	634	11.1	8,570	19.5	15,060	3.2	2.8
Mexico	121	1,964	61	1,165.1	9,640	1,987.6	16,450	3.8	2.5
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	0	3	33	0.3	3,230	0.4	3,920	0.4	0.5
Moldova	4	34	124	7.4	2,070	12.9	3,630	-0.8	-0.8
Monaco	0	0	18,631	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mongolia	3	1,564	2	8.8	3,160	14.0	5,020	12.3	10.6
Montenegro	1	14	46	4.5	7,220	9.1	14,590	-0.5	-0.6
Morocco	33	447	72	97.9	2,960	167.4	5,060	4.2	1.2
Mozambique	25	799	31	12.8	510	25.3	1,000	7.4	4.7
Myanmar	53	677	80	..	..	..	..	..	..
Namibia	2	824	3	12.7	5,610	16.4	7,240	5.0	3.1
Nepal	27	147	189	19.2	700	40.4	1,470	4.9	3.6
Netherlands	17	42	495	804.3	47,970	729.6	43,510	-1.2	-1.7
New Caledonia	0	19	14	..	..	..	..	..	..
New Zealand	4	268	17	135.0	30,640	132.3	30,030	3.0	2.3
Nicaragua	6	130	49	9.9	1,650	23.3	3,890	5.2	3.7
Niger	17	1,267	13	6.7	390	13.0	760	10.8	6.7
Nigeria	169	924	180	243.7	1,440	413.6	2,450	6.5	3.6
Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	116	..	..	..	..	..	..
Norway	5	324	16	496.2	98,860	336.1	66,960	3.1	1.7
Oman	3	310	10	53.5	19,110	71.0	25,320	0.3	-7.1
Pakistan	179	796	229	225.1	1,260	516.5	2,880	4.0	2.3
Palau	0	0	45	0.2	9,860	0.4	16,870	5.3	4.5
Panama	4	75	50	32.4	8,510	57.6	15,150	10.7	8.9
Papua New Guinea	7	463	15	12.8	1,790	19.6	2,740	8.0	5.7
Paraguay	7	407	17	22.8	3,400	38.2	5,720	-1.2	-2.9
Peru	30	1,285	23	181.8	6,060	302.7	10,090	6.3	5.0
Philippines	97	300	319	241.7	2,500	423.6	4,380	6.8	5.0
Poland	39	313	127	488.0	12,660	816.0	21,170	1.8	1.8
Portugal	11	92	115	217.0	20,620	260.7	24,770	-3.2	-2.9
Puerto Rico	4	9	416	66.0	18,000	..	..	0.5	1.3
Qatar	2	12	165	145.3	76,010	153.8	80,470	6.2	-1.0
Romania	21	238	93	188.1	8,820	359.5	16,860	3.1	3.4
Russian Federation	144	17,098	9	1,822.7	12,700	3,260.6	22,720	3.4	3.0
Rwanda	11	26	452	6.9	600	15.1	1,320	8.0	5.0
Samoa	0	3	66	0.6	3,260	0.8	4,250	2.9	2.1
San Marino	0	0	517	..	..	..	..	..	..
Sao Tome and Principe	0	1	191	0.2	1,310	0.3	1,810	4.0	1.3
Saudi Arabia	28	2,150	13	588.9	21,210	837.4	30,160	5.1	3.2
Senegal	14	197	69	14.2	1,030	25.8	1,880	3.5	0.5
Serbia	7	88	83	38.1	5,280	82.6	11,430	-1.7	-1.2
Seychelles	0	0	190	1.1	12,260	2.3	25,740	2.8	2.4
Sierra Leone	6	72	82	3.5	580	8.0	1,340	15.2	13.0
Singapore	5	1	7,405	250.8	47,210	319.3	60,110	1.3	-1.1
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	0	0	1,132	..	..	..	..	..	..
Slovak Republic	5	49	112	93.0	17,180	134.0	24,770	1.8	1.6
Slovenia	2	20	102	46.9	22,800	56.1	27,240	-2.5	-2.8
Solomon Islands	1	29	19	0.6	1,130	1.2	2,130	3.9	1.7
Somalia	10	638	16	..	..	..	..	..	..
South Africa	51	1,219	42	389.8	7,610	563.3	11,010	2.5	1.3
South Sudan	11	644	..	8.6	790	..	..	-47.6	-49.8
Spain	46	506	93	1,368.8	29,620	1,463.7	31,670	-1.6	-1.7
Sri Lanka	20	66	333	59.3	2,920	122.5	6,030	6.4	9.2
St. Kitts and Nevis	0	0	204	0.7	13,610	0.9	17,630	6.9	5.7
St. Lucia	0	1	294	1.2	6,890	2.0	11,300	0.5	-0.4
St. Martin (French part)	0	0	563	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	280	0.7	6,400	1.2	10,870	2.3	2.3
Sudan	37	1,879	20	55.9	1,500	77.1	2,070	-10.1	0.6
Suriname	1	164	3	4.6	8,680	4.5	8,380	3.9	2.9
Swaziland	1	17	70	3.5	2,860	5.9	4,760	-1.5	-3.0
Sweden	10	450	23	532.7	55,970	418.6	43,980	1.0	0.2
Switzerland	8	41	198	647.5	80,970	440.6	55,090	1.0	0.0
Syrian Arab Republic	22	185	120	56.3	2,610	114.6	5,120	3.2	0.8
Tajikistan	8	143	56	6.9	860	17.4	2,180	7.5	4.9
Tanzania	48	947	52	26.7	570	72.4	1,560	6.9	3.7
Thailand	67	513	130	347.8	5,210	619.5	9,280	6.5	6.2
Timor-Leste	1	15	79	4.4	3,620	7.5	6,230	0.6	-2.3
Togo	7	57	119	3.3	500	6.0	900	5.6	2.9
Tonga	0	1	145	0.4	4,220	0.5	5,020	0.8	0.5
Trinidad and Tobago	1	5	260	19.7	14,710	30.6	22,860	1.5	1.2
Tunisia	11	164	69	44.8	4,150	99.2	9,210	3.6	2.6
Turkey	74	784	95	801.1	10,830	1,345.7	18,190	2.2	0.9
Turkmenistan	5	488	11	28.0	5,410	46.9	9,070	11.1	9.7
Turks and Caicos Islands	0	1	33	..	..	..	..	..	..
Tuvalu	0	0	328	0.1	5,650	..	..	0.2	0.0
Uganda	36	242	176	16.0	440	40.7	1,120	3.4	0.0
Ukraine	46	604	79	159.6	3,500	327.1	7,180	0.2	0.4
United Arab Emirates	9	84	107	319.3	35,770	370.9	41,550	4.4	1.2
United Kingdom	63	244	259	2,444.9	38,670	2,361.1	37,340	0.1	-0.6
United States	314	9,832	34	16,430.4	52,340	16,514.5	52,610	2.8	2.0
Uruguay	3	176	19	46.1	13,580	52.0	15,310	3.9	3.6
Uzbekistan	30	447	69	51.2	1,720	109.1	3,670	8.2	6.6
Vanuatu	0	12	20	0.7	3,000	1.1	4,300	2.3	0.0
Venezuela, RB	30	912	33	373.3	12,460	386.9	12,920	5.6	4.0
Vietnam	89	331	283	137.5	1,550	321.4	3,620	5.2	4.1
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	0	0	302	..	..	..	..	..	..
West Bank and Gaza	4	6	652	..	..	..	..	..	..
Yemen, Rep.	24	528	44	30.4	1,270	55.1	2,310	0.1	-2.2
Zambia	14	753	18	19.1	1,350	22.4	1,590	7.3	4.0
Zimbabwe	14	391	35	8.9	650	..	..	4.4	1.6
World	7,046	134,292	54	71,438.9	10,138	85,869.7	12,186	2.3	1.2
Low income	846	16,198	55	497.4	588	1,163.8	1,375	6.3	4.0
Middle income	4,898	64,214	76	21,464.8	4,383	35,129.3	7,172	5.0	3.8
Lower middle income	2,507	20,742	120	4,794.8	1,913	9,836.1	3,923	4.0	2.5
Upper middle income	2,391	43,472	56	16,680.5	6,977	25,303.3	10,584	5.3	4.5
Low & middle income	5,744	80,412	72	21,972.9	3,825	36,274.3	6,315	5.0	3.7
East Asia & Pacific	1,992	16,304	125	9,727.7	4,884	15,451.5	7,758	7.5	6.7
Europe & Central Asia	272	6,479	43	1,820.3	6,691	3,225.0	11,854	2.1	1.4
Latin America & Caribbean	581	19,461	30	5,221.4	8,981	6,894.6	11,859	3.0	1.8
Middle East & North Africa	340	8,775	39	..	..	..	..	..	..
South Asia	1,649	5,131	341	2,412.0	1,462	5,879.3	3,565	3.6	2.3
Sub-Saharan Africa	910	24,262	38	1,229.5	1,351	2,032.6	2,233	4.3	1.5
High income	1,302	53,880	25	49,716.5	38,182	49,903.2	38,325	1.5	1.0
Euro area	334	2,629	130	12,645.4	37,884	12,088.8	36,217	-0.6	-0.9

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