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Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021

2021, as World Bank Group’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021 covers 173 countries. United States is highest, at 52,653.9; DR Congo is lowest, at 688.7. The middle country reads 12,799.6. Against 2017, 168 values changed (156 up, 12 down), 5 countries joined, 8 left.

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Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP) · Data for 2021

HighestUnited States

52,653.9

LowestDR Congo

688.7

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 173 countries · select a heading to sort

Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America52,653.9
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe47,418.9
3BermudaBMUNorthern America44,805.9
4Hong KongHKGEastern Asia44,577.4
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe42,010.3
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe40,109.5
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe39,742.2
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe39,657.2
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe39,643.3
10AustriaAUTWestern Europe39,180.0
11BelgiumBELWestern Europe38,171.8
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe37,898.2
13Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean37,818.1
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe37,239.6
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe37,067.0
16CanadaCANNorthern America37,061.7
17AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand37,030.3
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe36,439.0
19FranceFRAWestern Europe36,402.8
20SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia35,065.8
21New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand34,710.1
22TaiwanTWNEastern Asia33,060.9
23ItalyITASouthern Europe32,184.8
24United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia32,056.2
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe31,893.6

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States52,653.9
  2. 2Luxembourg47,418.9
  3. 3Bermuda44,805.9
  4. 4Hong Kong44,577.4
  5. 5Norway42,010.3

Lowest

  1. 173DR Congo688.7
  2. 172Central African Republic923.0
  3. 171Burundi937.4
  4. 170Mozambique1,198.7
  5. 169Niger1,276.8

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12,799.6. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2021

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −8countries joined / left
  • 168values changed, of 168 in both
  • 156 · 12rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Lebanon17,640.0 → 9,151.6−8,488.4
  • Curaçao19,058.3 → 15,516.1−3,542.3
  • Panama19,368.2 → 16,870.2−2,498.0
  • Nigeria4,525.2 → 3,730.8−794.4
  • Angola3,770.6 → 3,275.3−495.3
+ Guatemala+ Somalia+ South Sudan+ Syria+ Uzbekistan− Bahamas− Barbados− Haiti− Iran− Myanmar− Sint Maarten− Turks and Caicos Islands− British Virgin Islands

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method
  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2021.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 173 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2021). Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/actual-individual-consumption/2021

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07Questions

Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest actual individual consumption per person in Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021?

United States, at 52,653.9, of the 173 countries in the file.

What year does Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021 cover?

173.

Where can I download Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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