GDP per capita (current US$)

Indicator id: gdp_per_capita_usd · Unit: current US$ · Coverage: 1960-2024

GDP in current US dollars divided by midyear population.

Sources

• World Bank (preferred) -- dataset WDI, code NY.GDP.PCAP.CD (https://data.worldbank.org)
• International Monetary Fund -- dataset WEO:NGDPDPC, code NGDPDPC (https://www.imf.org)

Reconciliation note: IMF WEO's NGDPDPC and the World Bank's NY.GDP.PCAP.CD closely track each other for Nepal (verified live: both ~$875.5 for 2015) since both divide the same national-accounts GDP by a similar midyear population base. WEO's coverage runs to 2031 (projections) versus the Bank's actuals-only cutoff, so a gap in later years is a projection/actual mismatch, not a measurement disagreement.

Caveats

Current (nominal) US$; not adjusted for purchasing power, so cross-country comparisons understate living standards in lower-price economies like Nepal.

Taxonomy

SDG: SDG 8.1 -- Sustain per capita economic growth
Topic: Economy & Growth
Themes: economy

Also known as

"GDP per capita", "GDP per person", "income per person", "how rich is Nepal"

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