Gross National Product

(2000 data, billion dollars)
(product per capita in parentheses, thousand dollars)
GDP Yearly Growth Rate
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Country GNP Per Capita
USA$10,533 $38
Japan$4,852 $38
Germany$2,242 $27
Britain$1,544 $26
France$1,543 $26
China$1,329$1
Italy$1,260 $22
Canada$760 $24
Brazil$715 $4
Spain$651 $16
Mexico$578 $6
South Korea$515 $11
India$510 $0.5
Australia$444 $24
Netherlands$429$27
Taiwan$363 $16
Argentina$300 $8
Switzerland$286$39
Sweden$275$31
Belgium$264$26
Russia$252 $2
Austria$226$27
Turkey$212$3
Poland$188$5
Indonesia$174$0.8
Thailand$132$2

 

Country % of Global GDP % of World Population
USA 32.9% 4.65%
Japan 13.4% 2.09%
Germany 6.0% 1.36%
Britain 4.6% 0.99%
France 4.2% 0.97%
China 3.7% 20.84%
Italy 3.5% 0.95%
Canada 2.3% 0.51%
Mexico 2.0% 1.62%
Spain 1.9% 0.65%

Purchasing-power parity (2003)

Rank Country PPP total PPP/capita Population
($ billions) ($) (million)
European Union 10,840 28,600 379
1. USA 10,400 37,600 290
2. China (mainland) 5,700 4,400 1,287
3. Japan 3,550 28,000 127
4. India 2,660 2,540 1,049
5. Germany 2,180 26,600 82
6. France 1,540 25,700 60
7. Britain 1,520 25,300 60
8. Italy 1,440 25,000 57
9. Russia 1,350 9,300 144
10. Brazil 1,340 7,600 182
11. South Korea 931 19,400 48
12. Canada 923 29,400 32
13. Mexico 900 9,000 104
14. Spain 828 20,700 40
15. Indonesia 663 3,100 234
16. Australia 528 27,000 19
17. Turkey 468 7,000 68
18. Iran 456 7,000 68
19. Netherlands 434 26,900 16
20. South Africa 432 10,000 42
21. Thailand 429 6,900 70
22. Taiwan 406 18,000 22
23 . Argentina 391 10,200 38
24. Poland 368 9,500 38
Just for fun, I tried to calculate the wealth of the entire planet, and see how rich/poor each person would be if we simply divided the world's wealth by the world's population (six billion people).

If I use GNP data, i find that the world's total GNP is about $30 trillion (the USA's GNP is $10 trillion and the USA accounts for about 1/3 of the world's GNP). Divided by 6 billion people, that's an average of $5,000 per capita. That's yearly production of wealth. Depreciation of goods is hard to estimate, but we can assume that it is about 30% on average. So the accumulated wealth is 5000 minus 30% of 5000 minus 30% of this number minus... a series that converges to about $10-11,000

If I use the data on net worth (average USA household net worth is $182,381 as per the census, which means a total wealth of about about $18 trillion for the 100 million USA households, which means about $54 trillion for the wealth of all households of the world). That's household wealth. Now we need to add government wealth, which is approx 30-40% in the US, more in other countries. So the total wealth of the world is about $70 trillion of dollars. Thus the average human on this planet is worth $70,000/6= $11,000

So both ways we get the same number: if we distributed the wealth of the world to the people of the world in equal terms, each person would be worth $11,000

For the USA alone these numbers are: Per-capita GNP: $38,000 and Average net worth: $60,000 .