Countries With the Lowest GDP per Capita (PPP)

Every country with a figure for gdp per capita (ppp), ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Burundi ($1,067), Central African Republic ($1,123) and Somalia, Fed. Rep. ($1,404). The middle country of the 199 has $18,779.

What this measures

GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $). Source: World Bank. For this measure, higher is better.

The main measure of how developed a country is. It is the default adjustment in every "after adjusting" link on the site. It is used in percentage terms (on a log scale), since its link with nearly every other measure is closer to a straight line that way.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2022–2025. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on gdp per capita (ppp)

• Countries With the Highest GDP per Capita (PPP)
• GDP per capita (PPP) by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest Public Social Spending
• Countries With the Lowest Family Benefits Spending
• Countries With the Lowest Old-age Spending
• Countries With the Lowest Aid Given
• Countries With the Lowest Government Spending per Capita
• Countries With the Lowest Corporate Tax Rates
• Countries With the Lowest HDI
• Countries With the Lowest Inequality-adjusted HDI

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.