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These Are The 50 Richest Countries By GDP Per Capita

GDP per capita is a rough proxy for a country’s average living standards. A higher GDP per capita usually reflects more economic resources available per person, a signal for prosperity.

However, like all statistical measures there are caveats: it doesn’t account for income distribution, quality of life metrics, or how sustainable the economy is.

Nevertheless, it is a standard that can be applied to make useful comparisons, while keeping these caveats in mind.

So, what are the “richest” countries in the world?

Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao ranks the top 50 countries by GDP per capita in 2025 using figures from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

All values are in current USD, which means: it is not adjusted for currency rates, cost of living metrics, or inflation.

Ranked: The Richest Countries in the World in 2025

Luxembourg is the richest country in the world by GDP per capita, $140,941 in 2025.

The U.S. is the richest country ($89,105) with a population of more than 10 million.

Rank
Country/ Region
ISO Code
GDP Per Capita
1
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
LUX
$140,941
2
🇮🇪 Ireland
IRL
$108,919
3
🇨🇭 Switzerland
CHE
$104,896
4
🇸🇬 Singapore
SGP
$92,932
5
🇮🇸 Iceland
ISL
$90,284
6
🇳🇴 Norway
NOR
$89,694
7
🇺🇸 U.S.
USA
$89,105
8
🇲🇴 Macao SAR
MAC
$76,314
9
🇩🇰 Denmark
DNK
$74,969
10
🇶🇦 Qatar
QAT
$71,653
11
🇳🇱 Netherlands
NLD
$70,480
12
🇦🇺 Australia
AUS
$64,547
13
🇸🇲 San Marino
SMR
$59,603
14
🇦🇹 Austria
AUT
$58,192
15
🇸🇪 Sweden
SWE
$58,100
16
🇧🇪 Belgium
BEL
$57,772
17
🇮🇱 Israel
ISR
$57,760
18
🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR
HKG
$56,031
19
🇩🇪 Germany
DEU
$55,911
20
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
GBR
$54,949
21
🇫🇮 Finland
FIN
$54,163
22
🇨🇦 Canada
CAN
$53,558
23
🇦🇪 UAE
ARE
$49,498
24
🇫🇷 France
FRA
$46,792
25
🇳🇿 New Zealand
NZL
$46,126
26
🇲🇹 Malta
MLT
$45,735
27
🇦🇩 Andorra
AND
$45,263
28
🇨🇾 Cyprus
CYP
$41,132
29
🇮🇹 Italy
ITA
$41,091
30
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico
PRI
$38,605
31
🇦🇼 Aruba
ABW
$37,775
32
🇧🇸 Bahamas
BHS
$36,784
33
🇪🇸 Spain
ESP
$36,192
34
🇸🇮 Slovenia
SVN
$35,332
35
🇧🇳 Brunei Darussalam
BRN
$34,970
36
🇰🇷 South Korea
KOR
$34,642
37
🇹🇼 Taiwan
TWN
$34,426
38
🇯🇵 Japan
JPN
$33,956
39
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
CZE
$33,039
40
🇪🇪 Estonia
EST
$32,760
41
🇬🇾 Guyana
GUY
$32,326
42
🇱🇹 Lithuania
LTU
$30,835
43
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
SAU
$30,099
44
🇵🇹 Portugal
PRT
$30,002
45
🇰🇼 Kuwait
KWT
$29,951
46
🇧🇭 Bahrain
BHR
$28,857
47
🇸🇰 Slovak Republic
SVK
$27,130
48
🇵🇱 Poland
POL
$26,805
49
🇧🇧 Barbados
BRB
$25,901
50
🇬🇷 Greece
GRC
$25,756
51
🇭🇷 Croatia
HRV
$25,674
52
🇭🇺 Hungary
HUN
$24,809
53
🇱🇻 Latvia
LVA
$24,374
54
🇺🇾 Uruguay
URY
$22,693
55
🇦🇬 Antigua
& Barbuda
ATG
$22,630
56
🇰🇳 Saint Kitts
& Nevis
KNA
$21,911
57
🇸🇨 Seychelles
SYC
$21,633
58
🇷🇴 Romania
ROU
$21,421
59
🇵🇦 Panama
PAN
$20,080
60
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
CRI
$19,095
61
🇵🇼 Palau
PLW
$18,993
62
🇴🇲 Oman
OMN
$18,966
63
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
BGR
$18,522
64
🇹🇹 Trinidad
& Tobago
TTO
$18,445
65
🇲🇻 Maldives
MDV
$18,207
66
🇨🇱 Chile
CHL
$17,015
67
🇹🇷 Türkiye
TUR
$16,709
68
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
KAZ
$14,768
69
🇱🇨 Saint Lucia
LCA
$14,499
70
🇦🇷 Argentina
ARG
$14,362
71
🇷🇺 Russia
RUS
$14,258
72
🇷🇸 Serbia
SRB
$14,174
73
🇨🇳 China
CHN
$13,687
74
🇲🇪 Montenegro
MNE
$13,508
75
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
TKM
$13,337
76
🇲🇾 Malaysia
MYS
$13,145
77
🇳🇷 Nauru
NRU
$12,727
78
🇲🇽 Mexico
MEX
$12,692
79
🇬🇩 Grenada
GRD
$12,591
80
🇲🇺 Mauritius
MUS
$12,332
81
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
DOM
$11,743
82
🇻🇨 Saint Vincent
& the Grenadines
VCT
$11,162
83
🇦🇱 Albania
ALB
$10,527
84
🇧🇷 Brazil
BRA
$9,964
85
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
MKD
$9,882
86
🇩🇲 Dominica
DMA
$9,869
87
🇬🇪 Georgia
GEO
$9,571
88
🇦🇲 Armenia
ARM
$8,857
89
🇬🇦 Gabon
GAB
$8,842
90
🇵🇪 Peru
PER
$8,814
91
🇧🇿 Belize
BLZ
$8,648
92
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
BIH
$8,362
93
🇲🇩 Moldova
MDA
$8,260
94
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
MHL
$8,133
95
🇨🇴 Colombia
COL
$8,054
96
🇧🇾 Belarus
BLR
$7,875
97
🇯🇲 Jamaica
JAM
$7,778
98
🇹🇭 Thailand
THA
$7,767
99
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
GNQ
$7,750
100
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
AZE
$7,604
101
🇲🇳 Mongolia
MNG
$7,201
102
🇽🇰 Kosovo
XKX
$7,147
103
🇧🇼 Botswana
BWA
$7,021
104
🇪🇨 Ecuador
ECU
$6,942
105
🇸🇷 Suriname
SUR
$6,858
106
🇱🇾 Libya
LBY
$6,801
107
🇫🇯 Fiji
FJI
$6,740
108
🇬🇹 Guatemala
GTM
$6,698
109
🇹🇻 Tuvalu
TUV
$6,543
110
🇵🇾 Paraguay
PRY
$6,522
111
🇿🇦 South Africa
ZAF
$6,397
112
🇺🇦 Ukraine
UKR
$6,261
113
🇸🇻 El Salvador
SLV
$5,722
114
🇹🇴 Tonga
TON
$5,721
115
🇩🇿 Algeria
DZA
$5,691
116
🇮🇶 Iraq
IRQ
$5,668
117
🇼🇸 Samoa
WSM
$5,471
118
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde
CPV
$5,421
119
🇫🇲 Micronesia
FSM
$5,291
120
🇮🇩 Indonesia
IDN
$5,027
121
🇯🇴 Jordan
JOR
$4,903
122
🇻🇳 Vietnam
VNM
$4,806
123
🇳🇦 Namibia
NAM
$4,661
124
🇸🇿 Eswatini
SWZ
$4,613
125
🇹🇳 Tunisia
TUN
$4,528
126
🇧🇴 Bolivia
BOL
$4,525
127
🇲🇦 Morocco
MAR
$4,397
128
🇵🇭 Philippines
PHL
$4,350
129
🇩🇯 Djibouti
DJI
$4,343
130
🇧🇹 Bhutan
BTN
$4,302
131
🇻🇪 Venezuela
VEN
$4,068
132
🇮🇷 Iran
IRN
$3,897
133
🇸🇹 São Tomé & Príncipe
STP
$3,569
134
🇻🇺 Vanuatu
VUT
$3,548
135
🇭🇳 Honduras
HND
$3,519
136
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
UZB
$3,514
137
🇪🇬 Egypt
EGY
$3,174
138
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
NIC
$3,019
139
🇦🇴 Angola
AGO
$2,884
140
🇮🇳 India
IND
$2,878
141
🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire
CIV
$2,872
142
🇰🇭 Cambodia
KHM
$2,870
143
🇰🇬 Kyrgyz Republic
KGZ
$2,747
144
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
BGD
$2,689
145
🇭🇹 Haiti
HTI
$2,672
146
🇵🇬 Papua New
Guinea
PNG
$2,565
147
🇬🇭 Ghana
GHA
$2,519
148
🇲🇷 Mauritania
MRT
$2,478
149
🇰🇪 Kenya
KEN
$2,468
150
🇰🇮 Kiribati
KIR
$2,414
151
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands
SLB
$2,379
152
🇨🇬 Congo
COG
$2,356
153
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
ZWE
$2,199
154
🇱🇦 Laos
LAO
$2,096
155
🇬🇳 Guinea
GIN
$1,904
156
🇨🇲 Cameroon
CMR
$1,865
157
🇸🇳 Senegal
SEN
$1,811
158
🇰🇲 Comoros
COM
$1,702
159
🇧🇯 Benin
BEN
$1,532
160
🇹🇱 Timor-Leste
TLS
$1,491
161
🇳🇵 Nepal
NPL
$1,458
162
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
TJK
$1,432
163
🇺🇬 Uganda
UGA
$1,338
164
🇿🇲 Zambia
ZMB
$1,332
165
🇹🇿 Tanzania
TZA
$1,280
166
🇲🇲 Myanmar
MMR
$1,177
167
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau
GNB
$1,126
168
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
BFA
$1,107
169
🇱🇸 Lesotho
LSO
$1,098
170
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
ETH
$1,066
171
🇹🇬 Togo
TGO
$1,053
172
🇷🇼 Rwanda
RWA
$1,043
173
🇹🇩 Chad
TCD
$991
174
🇬🇲 Gambia
GMB
$988
175
🇲🇱 Mali
MLI
$936
176
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
SLE
$916
177
🇱🇷 Liberia
LBR
$908
178
🇳🇬 Nigeria
NGA
$807
179
🇸🇴 Somalia
SOM
$766
180
🇳🇪 Niger
NER
$751
181
🇨🇩 DRC
COD
$743
182
🇲🇿 Mozambique
MOZ
$663
183
🇸🇩 Sudan
SDN
$625
184
🇲🇬 Madagascar
MDG
$595
185
🇲🇼 Malawi
MWI
$580
186
🇨🇫 Central
African Republic
CAF
$532
187
🇧🇮 Burundi
BDI
$490
188
🇾🇪 Yemen
YEM
$417
189
🇸🇸 South Sudan
SSD
$251
N/A
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
AFG
No Data
N/A
🇪🇷 Eritrea
ERI
No Data
N/A
🇱🇧 Lebanon
LBN
No Data
N/A
🇵🇰 Pakistan
PAK
No Data
N/A
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
LKA
No Data
N/A
🇸🇾 Syria
SYR
No Data
N/A
🇵🇸 Palestine
PSE
No Data
N/A
🌍 World
N/A
$14,213
Note: Data is missing for: Afghanistan, Eritrea, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Syria, Palestine. Figures for several overseas territories are also not included.

Noticeably, many of the top spots are held by small countries with specialized financial services sectors, also known offshore financial centers.

Luxembourg (#1), Ireland (#2), Switzerland (#3), Singapore (#4), Netherlands (#11) and Hong Kong (#18) are all considered tax havens as their friendly tax laws, strict privacy rules, and strong financial sectors encourage multinational corporations to route earnings through them.

As a result, this improves their GDP a significant amount, but doesn’t reflect the resident populations…

Netanyahu Survives Coalition Collapse, Strikes Deal With Ultra-Orthodox Partners

Via The Cradle,

Israel’s parliament narrowly rejected a preliminary bill to dissolve itself early on 12 June, avoiding the possibility of snap elections and preserving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile governing coalition. The motion, backed by opposition lawmakers, was defeated by a vote of 61 to 53 – just meeting the 61-seat threshold needed for passage in the 120-member Knesset.

The failed vote followed a last-minute deal between coalition leaders and ultra-Orthodox parties regarding one of Israel’s most divisive issues, which is mandatory military service for the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim. 

While military service is compulsory for most Jewish Israelis, the ultra-Orthodox community – roughly 13 percent of the population – has long been granted exemptions if men are enrolled in full-time religious study.

Ultra-orthodox parties have been pressuring the Netanyahu government to codify the exemptions by passing a new law.

In a key development, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein announced that his committee and ultra-Orthodox parties had reached a preliminary understanding to draft new legislation addressing the conscription issue. This agreement persuaded most ultra-Orthodox lawmakers to vote against dissolving the Knesset.

However, the arrangement sparked backlash from both opposition leaders and within the coalition itself. 

Yair Golan, leader of the opposition Democrats party, condemned the agreement, saying, “Netanyahu entered a room with the heads of the Haredi factions and left with a disgraceful agreement … There is no love for the country here. Only cynicism. Only selfish survival.” Golan accused Netanyahu of betraying both military service members and ultra-Orthodox citizens who wished to contribute to the state.

Netanyahu narrowly averts government collapse over ultra-Orthodox conscription dispute
——
A motion to dissolve Israel’s parliament because of friction over the conscription of Haredi men failed to pass on 11 June. The opposition reached a compromise, and only 53 voted in favor of… pic.twitter.com/NxrhoDnWgr
— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) June 12, 2025
Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, head of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party, resigned from Netanyahu’s cabinet in protest over the compromise deal. Goldknopf, whose Hasidic Agudat Yisrael faction supported the Knesset’s dissolution, said the new understandings fell short of promises made in coalition agreements. “I can no longer take part as a member of this government,” he wrote in his resignation letter to Netanyahu.

Goldknopf’s resignation follows a previous symbolic resignation in March over the same issue. Despite his departure, UTJ remains part of the ruling coalition, which has been under pressure due to widespread discontent over the military burden placed on young Israelis tasked with executing the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. With the war now lasting more than 18 months, the Israeli army is facing growing manpower shortages, intensifying the debate over draft exemptions.

Roughly 13,000 ultra-Orthodox men reach conscription age each year, but fewer than 10 percent enlist, according to the State Control Committee.

Tyler Durden
Fri, 06/13/2025 – 22:15…

Protected Status Terminated For 1 Million Migrants In US

Around 1 million migrants in the U.S. on temporary protections are seeing their status terminated by the Trump administration.

In April, around 350,000 Venezuelans lost their Temporary Protected Status in the country and were told to self-deport.

As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security notified almost 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela in the U.S. on the so-called CHNV program that their status had ended.

You will find more infographics at Statista

While the Supreme Court allowed the government to proceed as if the Temporary Protected Status of the Venezuelans in question and the CHNV program had ended, the programs are officially considered on hold as lower courts continue to litigate legal challenges to their discontinuation.

Earlier in the year, the U.S. government had already announced that is was cutting short or not extending some other Temporary Protected Status programs. This affects Haitians, Afghanis, Nepalese and Cameroonians. A total of around 220,000 people, mostly from Haiti, are set to lose their legal status in the U.S. this way in July and August.

Even more Temporary Protected Status programs are also suspected to not be extended. Protections for almost 250,000 additional Venezuelans would have to be extended before September, while more than 50,000 Hondurans are currently seeing their status expire in early July. Other programs include those for El Salvadorians (whose extention wasn’t stopped by the Trump administration), Syrians, Ukrainians and Nicaraguans.

Tyler Durden
Fri, 06/13/2025 – 17:40…

Images Emerge Of Tehran Destruction After Major Israeli ‘Preemptive Attack’; IRGC Chief Killed

LIVE FEED from Al Jazeera:

* * * 

Update2330ET: It appears there were at least two waves of Israeli attacks, with smoke still seen over Iranian military sites and areas of Tehran in the daylight morning hours.

ISRAEL PREPARING FOR IRANIAN RESPONSE IN COMING HOURS: KAN NEWS
IRAN STATE MEDIA: MULTIPLE MILITARY SITES IN TEHRAN TARGETED
IRAN NATANZ NUCLEAR SITE TARGETED: STATE MEDIA
IRAN ARAK HEAVY WATER REACTOR FACILITY TARGETED: STATE MEDIA
ISRAEL LAUNCHED ANOTHER WAVE OF ATTACKS IN IRAN: ARMY RADIO
Natanz after new explosions:

IRGC sites attacked:

Smoke rising above the IRGC Headquarters in Tehran pic.twitter.com/6zdUeEigbI
— Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) June 13, 2025
Destruction in Tehran:

⚡️Tehran destruction pic.twitter.com/VDi6BS17TB
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) June 13, 2025

⚡️ Reports also of attacks in western Iran pic.twitter.com/tbAhX3SfV1
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) June 13, 2025
A breaking note via UBS:

White House envoy Steve Witkoff reportedly warned top Senate Republicans last week that Iran could launch a large-scale missile and drone retaliation if Israel attacked its nuclear sites, saying that this could overwhelm Israeli defenses and cause heavy damage, according to various media (here and here). Israel has since attacked a key nuclear site in Natanz and Iran has vowed to respond with force. Both Brent and WTI crude prices are up more than 12%.

* * *

Update2215ET: In a massive development via Iranian state sources, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major Gen. Hossein Salami has been killed in Israel’s major Israeli attack on Tehran and other locations in Iran. Al Jazeera: “Iran’s Tasnim news agency and Tehran Times newspaper say Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been killed in an Israeli strike.”

IRAN’S IRGC CHIEF SALAMI KILLED IN ISRAELI ATTACKS: TASNIM
IRAN PLANNING ‘DECISIVE RESPONSE’ TO ISRAELI ATTACK: IRNA
Key uranium enrichment facility in central Iran ‘hit several times’: state TV

Just yesterday…

Meanwhile, some US Congressional members are not in the mood for another major war:

Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, criticizes the Israeli attacks on Iran and calls on Trump to push for de-escalation.

“Israel’s alarming decision to launch airstrikes on Iran is a reckless escalation that risks igniting regional violence,” Reed in a statement.

“I urge both nations to show immediate restraint, and I call on President Trump and our international partners to press for diplomatic de-escalation before this crisis spirals further out of control.”

* * *

Update (2115ET): Al Jazeera and regional media have reported at least six large explosions were observed in the Iranian capital of Tehran, as Israel confirms it has launched ‘Operation Rising Lion’ – which importantly Netanyahu in a televised address said “will continue for as many days” until the Iranian ‘nuclear threat’ is removed, and “as long as necessary”.

There are unconfirmed reports that Iranian jets have been scrambled and that the Islamic Republic’s inevitable retaliation has begun. Iran possesses an immense ballistic missile arsenal, many which can be launched from underground silos and deep below ground ‘missile cities’. Developing:

ISRAEL BELIEVES IT KILLED SOME IRAN GENERALS, ATOMIC SCIENTISTS
ISRAEL MILITARY OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON KILLINGS OF IRAN OFFICIALS

Prime…

Putin Reminds West That Russia Has World’s Most Advanced Nuclear Weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a Wednesday meeting of government ministers and military leaders took the opportunity to remind all other nations, especially the West, that Russia possesses the world’s most advanced nuclear weapons.

He introduced in the public statements that “special attention” must be paid to the continued development of the country’s nuclear triad, in reference to the combination of land-based delivery methods, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and strategic bombers.

“Now, the share of the state-of-the-art weapon systems and equipment in our strategic nuclear forces comes to 95%,” Putin said, according to state media translation. He added Russia is making “good progress” on the nuclear readiness front.
Source: Sputnik/Reuters

“That is the highest level among all of the world’s nuclear powers,” Putin then emphasized. He said:

Today, our task is to form a new long-term program for the entire complex of systems and weapons models, including, first of all, of course, promising ones, to make maximum use of the experience of the special military operation (the war against Ukraine – ed.), various regional conflicts, and, of course, it is important to take into account global trends in the development of military technologies.

He also assessed general military readiness, saying further: “The dominant force in conducting modern military operations of any scale and intensity remains the ground forces. And it is important to increase their combat capabilities in the shortest possible time.”

Currently, full nuclear triad capabilities are possessed only by three countries in the world — the USA, China and Russia.

American military leaders have tended to acknowledge the diversity and advancement of Russia’s nuclear-delivery systems. One of the latest new systems, the Sarmat ICBM, is boasted by Kremlin sources as being able to travel 11,000 miles (about 18,000km) with a payload of around ten tons.

A month ago, Putin made an unprecedented allegation. He asserted that Ukraine’s Western supporters in NATO were essentially trying to bait Moscow into deploying nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Putin emphasized that Russia exercised restraint in this matter.

During the ceremony of awarding the Hero of Labor medal, Deputy Scientific Director of the Snezhinsk Nuclear Center Yuri Dikov promised Putin:
“The entire NATO pack will break their teeth on our nuclear shield.”
– SK pic.twitter.com/e5N5epVuZZ
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) June 12, 2025
“They wanted to provoke us, wanted us to make mistakes,” the Russian leader had asserted in the early May Rossiya-1 interview. “And there was no need to use the weapons that you mentioned. I hope that it won’t be necessary,” he added.

“We have enough capabilities and means to finish what we started in 2022 with the result that Russia needs,” Putin concluded. He emphasized that Russia is able to carry through with its military goals without resorting to nuclear arms.

Tyler Durden
Thu, 06/12/2025 – 17:40…