Income Per Capita Latin America
Gdp per capita current us latin america caribbean chile world bank national accounts data and oecd national accounts data files.
Income per capita latin america. Chapter 2 of the report reviews the distribution of per capita household income. Chile ranked second registering a gross national. In latin america argentina reports the highest per capita income of 7 600 dollars followed by uruguay with 5 900. Chapter 3 discusses the decomposition of workers income inequality and chapter 4 absolute poverty.
Puerto rico is not listed since it is a u s. Latin american countries by gdp per capita ppp 2019. Coming in at the number 4 position on our list richest latin american countries is brazil. The world bank released in september the per capita income for worldwide countries.
The gross domestic product gdp per capita is the national output divided by the population expressed in u s dollars per person for the latest year for which data is published. This report presents the findings of a regional study on poverty and income distribution in latin america and the caribbean. Income per capita. In 2019 six caribbean nations were the countries with the highest gross national income per capita in latin america and the caribbean.
Latin america caribbean gni per capita for 2016 was 8 543 a 7 85 decline from 2015. Chile captures the sub continent s third spot with 4 740 followed by brazil with 4 420. Uruguay was the south american country with the highest average income per capita with over 16 2 thousand u s. This is a list of latin american and caribbean countries by gross domestic product at purchasing power parity in international dollars according to the international monetary fund s estimates in the october 2018 world economic outlook database.
Latin american per capita income. Latin america caribbean gni per capita for 2018 was 8 709 a 3 5 increase from 2017. Cuba is not included in the list due to lack of economic data. Dollars per person per year.
On average the national gross income amounted to around 31. This is the largest south american country both in terms of population and land area. This is a list of latin american and caribbean countries by gross domestic product nominal in usd according to the international monetary fund s estimates in the october 2018 world economic outlook database.