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It is estimated that meeting the World Health Organization’s interim standards could reduce damages by $80 per
capita.
But that pales in comparison to the $600 increase in per
capita
income in 2013.
The per
capita
income of the new countries is less than half of that of the fifteen members they are joining.
The journey to a new country is often perilous, but it promises far greater economic opportunity: average per
capita
incomes in advanced economies can be more than 50 times higher (in terms of purchasing power parity) than those in the developing world.
According to the European Commission, US per
capita
GDP is expected to return to its 2007 level next year, whereas it is expected to remain 3% below that level in the eurozone.
In any case, all of the Nordic countries have very high incomes, and Norway’s per
capita
income actually exceeds the US.
The United States now has a chance to raise real (inflation-adjusted) per
capita
GDP faster than the feeble 1.7% average rate recorded during the four years since growth resumed in the summer of 2009.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that real per
capita
GDP growth will slow from an annual rate of 2.1% in the 40 years before the start of the recent recession to just 1.6% between 2023 and 2088.
A drop in annual growth of real per
capita
GDP from 2.1% to 1.6% looks like a substantial decline.
An annual per
capita
growth rate of 1.6% means that a child born today will have a real income that, on average, is 60% higher at age 30 than his or her parents had at the same age.
The city’s per
capita
GDP reached $14,828 in 2012 – higher than Shanghai or Beijing, and well within the World Bank’s “high income” category.
Real-estate value per
capita
reached almost $50,000 in 2010 – more than four times per
capita
GDP that year – owing largely to soaring property prices.
Of 287 Chinese cities, 17 have populations of more than three million, with per
capita
GDP exceeding $12,000.
The average annual per
capita
GDP (in 2010 US dollars) of the countries that have built barriers since the fall of the Berlin Wall is $14,067; the average for the countries on the other side is $2,801.
From them, the Reinharts and Rogoff found, for example, that median annual growth rates of real per
capita
GDP for advanced countries were one percentage point lower in the decade following a crisis, while median unemployment rates were five percentage points higher.
WASHINGTON, DC – After decades of rapid economic growth and per
capita
income gains, Brazil is struggling.
As it stands, European economic output per
capita
remains well below 2008 levels.
Urban household spending in Africa is increasing twice as fast as rural spending, with urban per
capita
incomes, on average, 80% higher than those of countries as a whole.
With more than 100 million people still below the official poverty line and per
capita
income currently just over $6,000 in nominal terms, robust economic growth must be maintained.
Outgoing President Hu Jintao indicated that China’s total GDP and per
capita
income should double by 2020, which will require 7.5% average annual growth.
From 1998 to 2007, Greece's annual per
capita
GDP growth averaged 3.8%, the second fastest in Western Europe, behind only Ireland.
In fact, even after the so-called Greek Depression, its economy has grown more in per
capita
terms since 1998 than Cyprus, Denmark, Italy, and Portugal.
As it stands, even if China’s economy is the same size as America’s, China will maintain a competitive advantage in manufacturing, because its per
capita
GDP is only one-quarter that of the US.
Moreover, some middle-income countries, after promising growth, spent decades “trapped” at a certain per
capita
income level.
Argentina, for example, kept pace with the United States in per
capita
income growth from 1870 to 1940; since then, the gap has been widening steadily.
Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard University reported this summer that, under President Nicolas Maduro’s increasingly authoritarian regime, Venezuela’s per
capita
GDP was already down 40% just halfway through the year, reflecting an economic crisis that “dwarfs any in the history of the US, Western Europe, or the rest of Latin America.”
Over the last 12 years, her Worker’s Party (PT) has delivered the country’s strongest per
capita
GDP growth in more than three decades; reduced income inequality with an extensive system of social transfers that reaches one-third of Brazilian households; and reduced formal unemployment to a record-low 4.5%.
Costa Rica, for example, has achieved a higher level of social progress than Italy, with barely a third of Italy’s per
capita
GDP.
The declining ratio of the dependent population (children and the elderly) to the working-age population (16-64 years old) contributed 26.8% to per
capita
GDP growth in 1982-2000.
In 2010, 8.3% of China’s population was 65 and older, compared to 7.5% worldwide, while its GDP per
capita
was only 47.7% of the global average.
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