Richest Countries by GDP Per Capita PPP 2017
About This Dataset
Richest Countries by GDP Per Capita PPP 2017Macau (120,775), Luxembourg (114,986) and Qatar (99,358) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 120,775 down to 53,870, a spread of 66,905. Only 5,789 separates Macau from Luxembourg in second, 4.8% of the leading figure. 11 of the 20 reach half the leading figure, 60,388 or more. Macau stood at 107,653 in 2016, so its figure rose by 13,122 over the year. 2016 was led by Luxembourg, so the top place changed hands. Of the 20 in this table that also reported in 2016, 20 recorded a higher figure than the year before and 0 a lower one. The largest single move was Macau, from 107,653 to 120,775. The chart shows the twenty highest of 199 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2017 · 20 observations
- Measure
- GDP Per Capita (PPP, USD)
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2017.
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