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Europe grows less because it works less - and it should not be surprised if a number of so-called "developing countries" soon catch up with Europe in terms of income per capita.
With per capita GDP of more than $37,000, Japan still ranks among the world’s richest countries, specializing in the highest-value links of global supply chains.
And GDP in some countries, like France and Sweden, grew at rates lower than population growth, implying that per capita income declined.
Russia’s GDP is about one-seventh the size of America’s, and its per capita income (in purchasing-power-parity terms) of $18,000 is roughly one-third that of the US.
In fact, age may well be the most important factor in small-country performance, with per capita GDP in small countries that were established before 1945 some four times larger than in their newer counterparts.
Yet it ranks 95th in per capita GDP.
Since NAFTA was signed in December 1992, Mexico’s economy has grown at an average annual rate of barely over 1% in per capita terms.
Vietnam, however, grew at an annual rate of 5.6% per capita between the onset of its economic reforms in 1988 and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the US in 1995, and has continued to grow at a rapid 4.5% pace since then.
This casual fact assumes significance when one considers that Derna sent more teenage volunteers per capita than any other city in the Maghreb to wage jihad in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Likewise, India’s annual per capita income of $1,760 is just one-fifth that of China.
India has multiplied its per capita income levels many times over since 1950, and has done so far faster in recent years than Britain or the United States did during and after the industrial revolution.
The country has visibly prospered, and, despite population growth, per capita income has grown faster than ever before.
At the international level, the established post-war order was increasingly challenged by a rising China, whose sheer size, in terms of both geography and population, enabled it to achieve systemic importance, despite a relatively low per capita income and a political system that seemed at odds with a liberal market-based economy.
This sustained period of expansion was all the more noteworthy because it followed a half-century of relative decline, with Latin America’s per capita income relative to the United States falling from around 50% in the 1950’s to 23% in 2004.
And yet Argentina has managed to grow fast, doubling per capita income since 2002.
In Italy, per capita GDP is no higher than it was in the mid-1990s.
With Africa’s school-age population accounting for roughly one-third of the total, the per capita financing requirement is about $100.
Yet for a typical African country, that’s about 10% of per capita national income – far more than the education budget can cover.
Pressure for revaluation comes at a stage when per capita national income is merely $1,000, not $10,000 or $15,000, so China still needs a rather long period of rapid economic growth to reach anything like the stage that Japan had achieved when it allowed the yen to be revalued.
In Kyoto, every 10% increase in per capita income corresponded to an agreed emissions reduction of 1.4%.
If this pattern continues through the rest of the century, with emphasis gradually shifting from historic levels to per capita targets, economic models predict that no country need suffer a loss of more than 1% of GDP in present discounted value (assuming that market mechanisms such as international trading are allowed).
The graph below compares the per capita income of countries with the emissions cuts that they have pledged to deliver in 2020.
Lebanon has more than one million, the world’s highest refugee population per capita – equivalent to the combined populations of Germany and France migrating to the US.
South Korea is a fast-growing democratic country with per capita income of $23,000 and a highly educated population of 50 million.
(For comparison, Poland has 35 million citizens and per capita income of $13,000, while Germany has 85 million citizens and per capita income of $41,000.)
Yet, from Third World poverty levels two decades ago, Ireland has surpassed its former colonial master in GDP per capita .
In terms of emissions per capita among the world’s polluters, India ranks 128th – between Anguilla and Moldova.
Some that have high per capita income – for example, Israel, Hong Kong, and Singapore – have low inflation and want to maintain low policy interest rates to prevent exchange-rate appreciation against major currencies.
But try telling that to those in countries that are still in depression, with per capita GDP still below pre-2008 levels, unemployment rates above 20%, and youth unemployment at more than 50%.
Since 1996, per capita economic growth has averaged well below 1.5%, and total factor productivity has stagnated or declined.
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