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Economic growth in most emerging economies has slowed below 7%, the threshold needed to double per capita income in a single generation.
As technological innovation causes per capita income to rise, people will need to work less to satisfy their needs.
According to the International Monetary Fund, both Ukraine and Russia experienced spectacular growth from 2002 to 2007: over those five years, real per capita GDP rose 52% in Ukraine and 46% in Russia.
That is history now: real per capita GDP growth was only 0.2% last year in Ukraine, and only 1.3% in Russia.
The Palestinian Authority has received more aid per capita than did post-war Europe under the Marshall Plan, yet the politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have foiled hopes of a broader Euro-Mediterranean framework that, through dialogue and investment, would bring tangible improvements to the lives of millions.
But even when China becomes the world’s largest economy in the coming years, it will still be decades behind the US in terms of per capita income.
In structural terms, it matters greatly that the two entities in the world with economies and per capita income similar to the US – Europe and Japan – are both American allies.
China would counter that the US bears more responsibility for climate change, in both cumulative and per capita terms.
Thirty years after the National Revolution of 1952 Bolivia’s per capita income remained basically the same, with poverty steady at over 50% of the population.
And this in a country that had an estimated per capita income of $40 in the 1940’s but has now become the world’s 12th or 13th largest economy.
In the years since 1990, per capita income in Chile has tripled.
The country is facing severe energy constraints, and its economy has been stagnating since 1990, with annual per capita income, estimated at $1,800, amounting to slightly more than 5% of South Korea’s.
If the relevant conditions are satisfied, North Korea could capitalize on the “catch-up” effect, boosting growth further, because its low per capita income level would help to increase investment productivity and facilitate technology transfer from more developed economies.
China now has a larger economy in absolute terms than the US, though still only around one-fourth the size in per capita terms.
In a sample of 145 countries assembled by the World Bank, Venezuela’s homicide numbers since 1995 have been exceeded only by Honduras and El Salvador, countries with less than one-third of Venezuela’s per capita income.
We can discuss the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – which include targets like “halving per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reducing food losses along production and supply chains by 2030” – until we are blue in the face.
Only through such sustained growth can per capita income approach the levels prevailing in the developed world.
International support so far has been generous, but it is still well below per capita equivalents for other post-conflict situations – and the need is much greater.
The United States today is rich beyond imagining, with median household income and gross domestic product per capita each equal to nearly $60,000.
With further reforms, growth could reach 9% per year, which would produce a rise of per capita income each year of around 7%, enough to double income per person in a decade.
Skepticism regarding the need for environmental action arises from the relationship between environmental degradation and per capita income.
But, above a certain per capita income threshold, that trend reverses itself: at high income levels, economic growth correlates with environmental improvement, leading to the dubious conclusion that it might be possible to achieve sustainable growth without deviating from “business as usual” (maintaining current emissions levels).
The United States continues to have the world’s highest per capita emissions levels, at 19 tons of CO2 per person annually, even though average US annual income, at $42,385 per capita, is also among the highest in the world.
Likewise, China’s annual per capita income is $5,450, but it emits only 4.7 tons of CO2 per person (though, overall, it is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases).
South Africans earn an average income of $8,857 per capita, but they emit a disproportionate 9.4 tons of CO2 per person.
Italy’s per capita GDP in 2018 is about 8% below its level in 2007, the year before the global financial crisis triggered the Great Recession.
Moreover, higher gender-parity scores strongly correlate with higher levels of development, as measured by GDP per capita and the degree of urbanization.
China is still a poor country, with per capita GDP at roughly a quarter of the US level (on the basis of purchasing power parity).
The UK is at the upper end of the distribution, but it is on par with many other EU members, and it is far from having the most EU immigrants per capita.
The greater the number of girls who go to secondary school, the Bank adds, the higher the country’s per capita income growth.
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