World Bank Group · Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP)
Actual individual consumption per person by country
How much do people consume per person, counting the services government provides them?
United States placed first of the 173 countries compared in 2021, at 52,653.9, and DR Congo last, at 688.7. In the middle country the figure was 12,799.6.
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Actual individual consumption per person · 2021
Context statistic
Highest of 173United States
52,653.9012021 · position · derived
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 173 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Stefano Brivio · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
2Photo: Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
3Photo: Curtis & Renee derivative work: ויקיג'אנקי · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
Lowest in 2021
- 173
DR Congo688.7 - 172
Central African Republic923.0 - 171
Burundi937.4
Positions out of 173. Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
Highest on each continent
- Africa
Seychelles19,230.9 - AmericasUnited States52,653.9
- Asia
Hong Kong44,577.4 - Europe
Luxembourg47,418.9 - Oceania
Australia37,030.33 of 21 measured
- Every region
02Every measured country
Actual individual consumption per person on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value — the better end.
- 688.7–3,822.5
- 3,907.2–9,144.2
- 9,151.6–16,677.7
- 16,870.2–27,501.9
- 27,980.5–52,653.9
- No reading in 2021 (8 measured in an earlier edition)
- Europe
28,049.4
the middle country, of 39 measured · 49 members
Luxembourg47,418.9
Albania12,780.8Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Americas
14,994.2
the middle country, of 36 measured · 48 members
United States52,653.9
Nicaragua5,486.7Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Asia
10,145.9
the middle country, of 43 measured · 52 members
Hong Kong44,577.4
Syria2,833.9Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Africa
3,177.8
the middle country, of 52 measured · 55 members
Seychelles19,230.9DR Congo688.7Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Oceania
3 of 21 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, Fiji, New Zealand.
Australia37,030.3
Fiji10,211.6Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
20 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Western Europe
39,180.0
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Luxembourg47,418.9
France36,402.8Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Northern Europe
36,753.0
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
Norway42,010.3
Latvia24,636.7Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Eastern Asia
27,761.2
the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members
Hong Kong44,577.4
China9,285.6Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Southern Europe
24,602.7
the middle country, of 12 measured · 17 members
Italy32,184.8Albania12,780.8Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Eastern Europe
22,865.6
the middle country, of 10 measured · 10 members
Czechia28,481.8
Ukraine13,686.2Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Western Asia
20,257.4
the middle country, of 17 measured · 19 members
United Arab Emirates32,056.2Syria2,833.9Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Caribbean
15,997.2
the middle country, of 14 measured · 24 members
Cayman Islands37,818.1
Jamaica7,974.6Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- South America
12,584.5
the middle country, of 11 measured · 12 members
Uruguay20,649.3
Bolivia7,618.5Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- Central America
10,164.9
the middle country, of 8 measured · 8 members
Panama16,870.2Nicaragua5,486.7Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Southern Africa
8,645.6
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
South Africa10,254.4
Lesotho2,685.0Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
- Northern Africa
7,703.6
the middle country, of 5 measured · 6 members
Egypt15,776.6
Sudan4,417.0Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- South-eastern Asia
7,641.6
the middle country, of 9 measured · 11 members
Singapore35,065.8
Cambodia3,283.6Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Southern Asia
6,021.5
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Sri Lanka10,145.9
Nepal4,338.4Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Middle Africa
3,275.3
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
Equatorial Guinea11,580.0DR Congo688.7Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Western Africa
2,711.2
the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members
Ghana5,139.2
Niger1,276.8Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Eastern Africa
2,324.1
the middle country, of 17 measured · 19 members
Seychelles19,230.9Burundi937.4Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia37,030.3
New Zealand34,710.1Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Central Asia
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.
Kazakhstan20,468.6
Tajikistan3,420.9Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Melanesia
1 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji.
Fiji10,211.6Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Northern America
3 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Bermuda, Canada, United States.
United States52,653.9
Canada37,061.7Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.
03The whole field at once
The spread
173 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 12,799.6; a quarter are above 24,636.7, and a quarter below 5,139.2. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 181 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. “=” marks a position shared with another country. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. A country that pays for health and education through taxes and one where families pay privately compare fairly here, which is not true of household spending alone. Several economies that stand near the top on GDP per person — financial centres where multinational profits are booked, and oil exporters — stand much lower here, because much of what they produce is not consumed by the people who live there.
Showing 25 of 181 countries
Values for 2021. The change column compares 2021 with 2017 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
052017 → 2021
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions — reference years recalculated in one report, not two separate publications. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Improved most
before → after
Anguilla11,895.7 → 23,222.3 · 78th → 50th+11,326.6
Romania19,070.5 → 27,501.9 · 50th → 35th+8,431.4- United States44,245.1 → 52,653.9 · 1st → 1st+8,408.8
Denmark32,266.4 → 40,109.5 · 14th → 6th+7,843.1
Guyana8,827.2 → 16,498.5 · 104th → 70th+7,671.3
168 countries were measured in both 2017 and 2021. The field changed from 176 to 173 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
06Across every edition
Actual individual consumption per person in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
52,653.9
Actual individual consumption per capita (PPP, current international $)
Lowest reading on record
609.8
Actual individual consumption per capita (PPP, current international $)
Biggest improvement between editions
+11,326.6
11,895.7 → 23,222.3
Biggest decline between editions
−8,488.4
17,640.0 → 9,151.6
Most improved since first measured
+11,326.6
11,895.7 → 23,222.3
At the top most often
2 of 2
editions, alone at the first-listed end
07The measure
About actual individual consumption per person
Actual individual consumption per person is what people actually get to consume — what households buy plus the individual services governments and charities provide to them, such as schooling and health care — valued at purchasing power parities. The International Comparison Program treats it as a better measure of material living standards than GDP per person, which also counts investment, defence and profits that leave the country.
What the number is: Actual individual consumption per capita (PPP, current international $).
08Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Economy & Innovation and Poverty & Inequality, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Economy & InnovationPoverty & InequalityWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where actual individual consumption per person is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- GNI per Capita (PPP)World Bank Group · 98 countries in commonρ 0.98
- GDP per Capita (PPP)KeyWorld Bank Group · 162 countries in commonρ 0.97
- Human Development IndexKeyUNDP Human Development Report Office · 166 countries in commonρ 0.97
Moves against
Where actual individual consumption per person is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Gender Inequality IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office · 156 countries in commonρ −0.91
- Informal Employment RateILO · 83 countries in commonρ −0.91
- Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14UN IGME · 167 countries in commonρ −0.90
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 376 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
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10Questions
Actual individual consumption per person: questions and answers
Which country has the highest actual individual consumption per person?
United States, at 52,653.9, among the 173 countries compared in 2021.
Which country has the lowest actual individual consumption per person?
DR Congo, at 688.7, among the 173 countries compared in 2021.
How many countries does the Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP) cover?
173 in 2021, and 181 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 173 to 176 between editions.
What is the world average actual individual consumption per person?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 173 compared in 2021, the figure was 12,799.6.
Is this World Bank Group’s own ranking?
No. World Bank Group publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP) published?
This site holds 2 reference years, 2017–2021, all recalculated in World Bank Group’s 2024 report on one method — not 2 separate publications.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From World Bank Group, under CC BY 4.0. Read from the World Bank’s API for the 2021 cycle of the International Comparison Program, which also revised the 2017 benchmark. Regional and income-group aggregates are left out; results for European and OECD countries come from the Eurostat-OECD PPP Programme and are linked in by the ICP. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
11Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP) — World Bank Group
Read from the World Bank’s API for the 2021 cycle of the International Comparison Program, which also revised the 2017 benchmark. Regional and income-group aggregates are left out; results for European and OECD countries come from the Eurostat-OECD PPP Programme and are linked in by the ICP.
Newest edition
Report year 2021Data year 2021
Cite the source as: World Bank (2024), Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies: Results from the 2021 International Comparison Program. Washington, DC: World Bank Group. Data: World Bank API, source 90 (ICP 2021).
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-29.
How this page reads the numbers
- World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- United States — Stefano Brivio, CC BY 2.0
- Luxembourg — Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Bermuda — Curtis & Renee derivative work: ויקיג'אנקי, CC BY-SA 2.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Actual individual consumption per person by country: Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), data from World Bank Group. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/actual-individual-consumption