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South Korea and Thailand will soon face a rising dependency ratio as well, but their per capita GDP is higher than China’s – three times higher in the case of South Korea.
In the mid-1980s, income per capita (in fixed prices) was the same as it had been in 1955.
At its highpoint in 1975 Swedish per capita income was eleven per cent above the OECD average, and only slightly behind the Americans, the Swiss, and the Canadians.
According to the latest available data, the global economy is more than five times larger than it was a half-century ago, with global per capita GDP more than doubling over this period.
Doing so would raise per capita income by 1% annually through 2030.
In the country’s wealthier north, where average per capita income, at €30,000 ($40,500), approaches that of Germany, people are questioning the rationale of EU membership.
For example, per capita health-care spending in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland exceeds $3,000, compared to only $2,300 in Italy, where households must contribute roughly 20% of total health-care spending.
In order to escape the so-called “middle-income trap” – when a developing economy’s growth levels off, instead of advancing to high-income status (defined in July 2013 by the World Bank as per capita income of at least $12,616) – the underlying structural problems of China’s economy must be addressed.
With per capita income of more than $6,000, Chinese are becoming more demanding, insisting on safe food products, clean air, transparent government, affordable housing, quality education, social security, and equal opportunities.
Humans’ rapid expansion in terms of population and per capita use of Earth’s resources has continued apace.
Up to a threshold of around 100 kwh per capita per day, energy consumption and human development indicators go hand in hand.
Spending $10 per day on energy services would, for example, exhaust the per capita incomes of countries such as Angola, Ecuador, and Macedonia.
Given that China is still a relatively poor country, with per capita GDP only about 25% of the level in the United States, maintaining such a rapid pace of growth certainly is not impossible.
On conservative assumptions about future economic growth, however, in a century’s time world per capita income levels are likely to be over four times as high as they are now.
Technological progress over the last 40 years made world per capita income rise in real terms by 2.1% per annum.
This would make per capita income a hundred years from now 4.4 times greater than it is today.
Per capita energy consumption in countries such as China and India, the combined population of which is over 2 billion (and rising), is about one tenth of that of the USA, and will no doubt rise substantially in the future.
Hence, their real per capita incomes are lower relative to other countries.
China is still a low-income country, with per capita GDP of just $14,000, about one fourth of that in the United States.
But while China remains a complicated puzzle, the authorities are clearly pursuing pro-market reforms designed to produce real annual growth of 6.5% or more during the next five years, leading to the doubling of real per capita income by 2020 that the Chinese Communist Party called for in 2010.
In Sweden, which has taken in the second-highest number of asylum-seekers in Europe – and the highest number per capita – migration authorities may now establish safe zones for women at asylum centers, where Christians and gays have also reported harassment.
Without mitigation, and assuming that the high-growth developing countries reach current advanced-country levels of annual per capita CO2 emissions (10 to 11 tons, though much higher in North America), the current global average of 4.8 tons will almost double in 50 years, to 8.7 tons.
To prevent further climate change, the IPCC believes, emissions should be brought down to 2.3 tons per person globally, or roughly half the current per capita average, in the next 50 to 75 years.
But energy consumption – and thus carbon emissions – rise with per capita income.
Despite the IPCC’s target for annual per capita CO2 emissions, we still do not know how much warming various levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will cause.
China, with the world’s largest population, may challenge America’s overall wealth, but its per capita wealth is only about one-fifth that of the US.
China would still have a vast, underdeveloped countryside, and would not equal the US in per capita income until sometime after 2075 (depending on the measures of comparison.)
And, in terms of the wider gains, one study found that a five-year improvement in life expectancy can translate into a 0.5-percentage-point increase in annual per capita income growth.
As a result, China has pulled ahead, with per capita income last year standing at $11,850 – more than double India’s $5,350.
This framework suggests that policymakers identify tradable industriesthat have performed well ingrowing countrieswith similar resources and skills, and with a per capita income about double their own.
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