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This division of jobs leaves out the developing countries, many of which are "developing" at a speed that will make them richer than Europe in per
capita
terms quite soon.
But with a per
capita
GDP of only around $6,000 (compared to $60,000 for the United States), Colombia’s resources are limited.
In some African countries, electricity consumption per
capita
is around 50 kilowatt-hours per year, compared with an average of 8,600 kilowatt-hours in the OECD countries.
And, indeed, US economic performance has been very similar to that of the eurozone since the start of the crisis: GDP per
capita
today is still about 2% below the 2007 level on both sides of the Atlantic.
In fact, the economy that has imbibed the strongest dose of expansionary policy has recovered less: GDP per
capita
in the UK today is still 6% below the 2007 level.
As Columbia’s Xavier Sala-i-Martin pointed out in 2002 and 2006, even as inequality has risen in nearly every country, inequality across countries has decreased, owing largely to the success of developing countries like China and India in raising their per
capita
incomes since the 1980s.
And, while it is hard to imagine a more chaotic event for the global economy, it is also hard to know the way forward for Italy, where per
capita
income has actually fallen slightly during the euro era.
China Going ForwardBEIJING – China’s per
capita
income, at $3,800, has now surpassed the threshold for a middle-income country.
All else being equal, per
capita
incomes and productivity in countries with high proportions of elderly people tend to grow more slowly than in younger countries.
As a rough calculation, assume $10,000 in annual per
capita
health-care costs, or $1 billion per year in a community of 100,000.
Correcting for variations in the cost of living across countries, the paper concludes that $10,750 of purchasing power in the year 1990 is the threshold for per
capita
income beyond which a country is high income, while $7,250 makes it upper-middle income.
According to IMF figures, Greece’s never-ending crisis has cut per
capita
GDP (in terms of purchasing power parity) by 10% since 2010, and by 18% since 2007.
Argentina’s per
capita
income has risen, albeit slowly, during this period, but the country was never far from a full-blown macroeconomic crisis that could reduce household incomes sharply.
Indeed, while economic growth, accompanied by greater urbanization and higher per
capita
incomes, has translated into greater demand for fresh water, the population movements that have resulted are now exacerbating local ethnic tensions.
Moreover, in addition to expanding the workforce, immigrants actually boost per
capita
GDP by increasing productivity – that is, the amount that each worker produces.
In terms of nominal per
capita
GDP, Russia still fares little better than Mexico.
Its per
capita
income is more than €30,000 ($40,000) per year, and it has a strong welfare state and an educated society.
This should boost India's per
capita
income;2. old social barriers to education for girls and lower castes are giving way, under democratic pressures, to strong calls for universal education.
India could enjoy a decade of "income doubling," in which per
capita
gross domestic product actually doubles by the year 2010.
This would require an annual growth of per
capita
income of around 7%, something that is achievable given India's economic conditions.
Australia is among the world’s highest per
capita
emitters of CO2, owing to its reliance on coal – the most carbon-intensive fuel.
The implication is that the decrease in societal wellbeing may be far larger than that indicated by conventional GDP measures – numbers that already are bleak enough, with most countries showing that real (inflation-adjusted) per
capita
income is lower today than before the crisis – a lost half-decade.
Instead of going hungry, humans around the world on a per
capita
basis are eating more calories than ever before.
Real (inflation-adjusted) GDP in 2017 was at the same level as in 2003, and real GDP per
capita
was at the level of 1999.
On a per
capita
basis, the Maldives has sent the highest number of foreign fighters to support terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq.
China has more, but India is ahead in phones per capita, is adding them faster, and is projected to overtake China before the end of 2012.
US per
capita
national income peaked in 2006, just before the Great Recession, and was still 5% below that point in 2009.
By contrast, four years after US per
capita
national income peaked in 1929, it was still down 28%, and would not return to its 1929 peak for a full decade.
In other words, there can be no comparison to the Great Depression, at least in terms of decreased per
capita
national income.
So, within 11 years of the start of the Depression, Roosevelt and his team had gotten US per
capita
national income back to its previous peak while pushing output per worker 11% higher.
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