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GDP per capita: higher or lower than France?

Higher 16

  • New Zealand Right Wrong

    About $49,600 per person: New Zealand is ahead of France ($49,000) by just a few hundred dollars. The country is the world's largest exporter of dairy products.

  • Andorra Right Wrong

    With about $54,300 per person, Andorra is ahead of France. The principality lives off tourism, skiing and trade, and its two co-princes are the President of the French Republic and the Bishop of Urgell.

  • Canada Right Wrong

    About $55,700 per person, compared with $49,000 for France. Canada draws part of its wealth from its natural resources: it has the third-largest proven oil reserves in the world.

  • Finland Right Wrong

    With about $56,100 per person, Finland is ahead of France. This country of 5.6 million people, three-quarters covered by forest, is where the company Nokia was born.

  • Hong Kong Right Wrong

    About $57,000 per person: Hong Kong is ahead of France. A Special Administrative Region of China since 1997, it is one of the world's leading financial centres and one of Asia's major ports.

  • United Kingdom Right Wrong

    About $57,600 per person, compared with $49,000 for France. The City of London remains one of the world's very top financial centres, which carries great weight in the British economy.

  • Israel Right Wrong

    With about $60,300 per person, Israel is well ahead of France. Nicknamed the 'start-up nation', the country has one of the highest densities of tech companies in the world.

  • Germany Right Wrong

    About $60,500 per person: Germany, Europe's largest economy, is more than $11,000 ahead of France. Its industry, from cars to machine tools, exports all over the world.

  • Belgium Right Wrong

    With about $60,800 per person, Belgium is ahead of France. Brussels hosts the main institutions of the European Union and NATO headquarters, and Antwerp is Europe's second-largest port.

  • Austria Right Wrong

    About $62,900 per person, compared with $49,000 for France. The Austrian economy relies on a dense network of industrial firms and on tourism, especially in its Alpine ski resorts.

  • Australia Right Wrong

    With about $65,100 per person, Australia is ahead of France. The country is the world's largest exporter of iron ore, much of it shipped to steelworks in China.

  • Qatar Right Wrong

    About $72,500 per person: Qatar is far ahead of France. This small emirate of around three million people is one of the world's leading exporters of liquefied natural gas.

  • Netherlands Right Wrong

    With about $73,700 per person, the Netherlands is far ahead of France. Rotterdam is Europe's largest port, and the country is one of the biggest agricultural exporters in the world.

  • Macao Right Wrong

    About $75,900 per person, compared with $49,000 for France. This former Portuguese colony, returned to China in 1999, earns most of its income from its casinos, which make more money than those of Las Vegas.

  • United States Right Wrong

    With about $90,000 per person, the United States, the world's largest economy, is nearly $41,000 ahead of France. The gap with Europe has widened sharply since the 2008 financial crisis.

  • Ireland Right Wrong

    About $131,600 per person, more than two and a half times France! This figure is inflated by multinationals such as Apple and Google, which have set up their European headquarters in Ireland for its tax system.

Lower 16

  • Malta Right Wrong

    About $47,900 per person: Malta stays just below France ($49,000). The archipelago has grown rapidly thanks to financial services, online gaming and tourism.

  • Italy Right Wrong

    With about $43,300 per person, Italy stays below France. The third-largest economy in the eurozone, it has wide gaps in wealth between the industrial North and the South, the Mezzogiorno.

  • Cyprus Right Wrong

    About $41,800 per person, compared with $49,000 for France. The island's economy relies mainly on services: tourism, finance and the management of merchant shipping fleets.

  • Puerto Rico Right Wrong

    About $40,600 per person, below France. This US territory uses the American dollar but is not a state: its residents cannot vote in US presidential elections.

  • Spain Right Wrong

    With about $38,600 per person, Spain stays below France, despite strong recent growth. It is the second most visited country in the world, just behind France.

  • Slovenia Right Wrong

    About $37,400 per person, below France. Slovenia is the richest of the former Yugoslav republics and has used the euro since 2007, the first of the countries that joined the EU in 2004 to do so.

  • South Korea Right Wrong

    About $36,200 per person, below France. Yet the country has come a long way: very poor after the Korean War, it rose to become a major industrial power thanks to firms such as Samsung and Hyundai.

  • Japan Right Wrong

    With about $36,000 per person, Japan stays well below France. Its GDP per capita in dollars has fallen in recent years, largely because of the sharp drop in the yen.

  • Saudi Arabia Right Wrong

    Despite its oil, Saudi Arabia stays below France, with about $34,500 per person. The world's largest exporter of crude oil, it also has a large and young population.

  • Estonia Right Wrong

    About $34,400 per person, below France. This Baltic country of 1.4 million people is a pioneer of digital government and online voting, and the birthplace of Skype.

  • Lithuania Right Wrong

    With about $33,000 per person, Lithuania stays below France. Independent since 1990, it adopted the euro in 2015 and has had one of the fastest growth rates in the European Union.

  • Guyana Right Wrong

    About $32,400 per person, below France. This South American country has nonetheless seen record growth since it began producing oil from its offshore fields in 2019.

  • Kuwait Right Wrong

    Despite its huge oil reserves, Kuwait stays below France, with about $32,300 per person. Its currency, the Kuwaiti dinar, is the most valuable in the world against the dollar.

  • Brunei Right Wrong

    About $32,200 per person, below France. This small sultanate on the island of Borneo lives off oil and gas, which allow it to levy no personal income tax at all.

  • Portugal Right Wrong

    With about $32,100 per person, Portugal stays well below France. Tourism plays a growing role there, driven by Lisbon, Porto, the Algarve and Madeira.

  • Bahrain Right Wrong

    About $30,600 per person, below France. The first country in the Persian Gulf to strike oil, in 1932, Bahrain then turned to finance to prepare for life after oil.

GDP per capita measures the wealth a country produces each year, divided by its number of inhabitants. In 2025, according to the World Bank, France stood at about $49,000 per person. Your job is to say whether each country does better or worse! We compare GDP in current US dollars, with no adjustment for the cost of living, using the World Bank's latest figures, those for 2025. Don't trust your first impressions: some gaps come down to a few hundred dollars.

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Frequently asked questions

What is GDP per capita?

Gross domestic product measures the value of everything a country produces in a year. Dividing it by the number of inhabitants gives GDP per capita, which makes it possible to compare countries of very different sizes. It is not an income: it says nothing about how wealth is shared out.

Why compare in dollars?

To compare countries that use different currencies, their GDP is converted into a common currency, usually the US dollar. The ranking therefore also depends on exchange rates: when a currency falls against the dollar, the country's GDP per capita drops, even if its economy has not changed.

What is purchasing power parity?

Purchasing power parity corrects for price differences between countries: a dollar does not buy the same things everywhere. This calculation favours countries where living costs are lower. Rankings at purchasing power parity can therefore look quite different from those in current dollars.

Does GDP per capita measure well-being?

Not really. It ignores inequality, unpaid work, the state of the environment and the quality of public services. That is why the United Nations also publishes a Human Development Index, which takes life expectancy and education into account.

Photo credits

New Zealand : Photo Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Andorra : Photo Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Canada : Photo Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Finland : Photo Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Hong Kong : Photo Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ; United Kingdom : Photo Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Israel : Photo Suicasmo, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Germany : Photo Thomas Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Belgium : Photo Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Austria : Photo C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Australia : Photo Matthew Field, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Qatar : Photo P. Hughes, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Netherlands : Photo Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Macao : Photo Thom Devereux, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; United States : Photo Percival Kestreltail, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Ireland : Photo Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Malta : Photo Trajcinema, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Italy : Photo Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons ; Cyprus : Photo Anton Zelenov, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Puerto Rico : Photo P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Spain : Photo Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Slovenia : Photo Abrget47j, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ; South Korea : Photo Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Japan : Photo Romain Guy, CC0, Wikimedia Commons ; Saudi Arabia : Photo Uhooep, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Estonia : Photo Yamen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Lithuania : Photo BigHead, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Guyana : Photo Bill Cameron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Kuwait : Photo Gladiator2030, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Brunei : Photo Bernard Spragg, CC0, Wikimedia Commons ; Portugal : Photo Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons ; Bahrain : Photo Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons