The Poorest Countries in the World

All these extremely fragile and underdeveloped economies have either recently been through a civil war or are suffering from ongoing sectarian or ethnic conflicts.

February 13, 2017

Author: Jonathan Gregson

Project Coordinator: Edith Updike

Gross domestic product (GDP) based on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) per capita.

Values are expressed in current international dollars, to the nearest whole dollar, reflecting a single year's (2016) currency exchange rates and PPP adjustments.

Rank	Country	2016 International Dollars
1	Central African Republic	656
2	Democratic Republic of the Congo	784
3	Burundi	818
4	Liberia	882
5	Niger	1,113
6	Malawi	1,139
7	Mozambique	1,228
8	Guinea	1,271
9	Eritrea	1,321
10	Madagascar	1,504
11	Comoros	1,529
12	Togo	1,545
13	Guinea-Bissau	1,568
14	Sierra Leone	1,651
15	The Gambia	1,664
16	South Sudan	1,670
17	Haiti	1,784
18	Burkina Faso	1,790
19	Kiribati	1,820
20	Rwanda	1,905
21	Ethiopia	1,916
22	Zimbabwe	1,953
23	Afghanistan	1,957
24	Solomon Islands	1,995
25	Uganda	2,066
26	Benin	2,184
27	Mali	2,264
28	Nepal	2,480
29	Yemen	2,521
30	Senegal	2,578
31	Chad	2,580
32	Vanuatu	2,631
33	Tajikistan	2,982
34	Micronesia	3,032
35	Tanzania	3,097
36	Lesotho	3,107
37	Marshall Islands	3,239
38	Cameroon	3,260
39	São Tomé and Príncipe	3,344
40	Kenya	3,360
41	Djibouti	3,369
42	Kyrgyz Republic	3,467
43	Papua New Guinea	3,542
44	Tuvalu	3,566
45	Côte d'Ivoire	3,581
46	Cambodia	3,735
47	Bangladesh	3,890
48	Zambia	3,898
49	Timor-Leste	4,186
50	Ghana	4,380
51	Mauritania	4,404
52	Sudan	4,452
53	Pakistan	5,120
54	Moldova	5,217
55	Honduras	5,264
56	Nicaragua	5,280
57,	Tonga	5,332
58	Samoa	5,368
59	Laos	5,718
60	Nigeria	5,929
61	Myanmar	5,953
62	Vietnam	6,421
63	Uzbekistan	6,452
64	India	6,658
65	Cabo Verde	6,743
66	Republic of Congo	6,786
67	Angola	6,844
68	Bolivia	7,190
69	Philippines	7,696
70	Guyana	7,919
71	Guatemala	7,937
72	Bhutan	8,129
73	Belize	8,185
74	Ukraine	8,229
75	Morocco	8,359
76	Armenia	8,881
77	El Salvador	8,914
78	Jamaica	8,973
79	Paraguay	9,353
80	Fiji	9,353
81	Swaziland	9,768
82	Georgia	10,099
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11,034
84	Ecuador	11,036
85	Jordan	11,124
86	Sri Lanka	11,189
87	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	11,266
88	Dominica	11,484
89	Tunisia	11,656
90	Indonesia	11,699
91	Namibia	11,756
92	Albania	11,860
93	St. Lucia	11,970
94	Egypt	12,137
95	Mongolia	12,161
96	Peru	13,018
97	South Africa	13,179
98	Grenada	14,102
99	Colombia	14,161
100	Serbia	14,226
101	Libya	14,236
102	Macedonia	14,530
103	Algeria	14,949
104	Venezuela	15,102
105	Suriname	15,179
106	Brazil	15,211
107	Palau	15,260
108	Maldives	15,287
109	China	15,423
110	Dominican Republic	15,945
111	Costa Rica	16,141
112	Iraq	16,543
113	Thailand	16,835
114	Botswana	16,947
115	Montenegro	17,035
116	Barbados	17,136
117	Turkmenistan	17,347
118	Belarus	17,496
119	Azerbaijan	17,688
120	Iran	18,135
121	Lebanon	18,524
122	Mexico	18,864
123	Gabon	19,252
124	Bulgaria	20,116
125	Argentina	20,170
126	Mauritius	20,524
127	Turkey	21,146
128	Uruguay	21,570
129	Romania	22,319
130	Croatia	22,415
131	Panama	22,788
132	Chile	23,969
133	Antigua and Barbuda	24,050
134	The Bahamas	24,617
135	St. Kitts and Nevis	25,371
136	Kazakhstan	25,669
137	Latvia	25,740
138	Russia	26,109
139	Greece	26,809
140	Hungary	27,210
141	Malaysia	27,234
142	Poland	27,714
143	Seychelles	28,148
144	Portugal	28,515
145	Estonia	29,501
146	Lithuania	29,881
147	Slovak Republic	31,182
148	Trinidad and Tobago	31,933
149	Slovenia	32,027
150	Czech Republic	33,223
151	Cyprus	34,386
152	Israel	34,833
153	Italy	36,313
154	Spain	36,451
155	New Zealand	37,108
156	Puerto Rico	37,722
157	Malta	37,891
158	Korea	37,947
159	Equatorial Guinea	38,699
160	Japan	38,893
161	Finland	41,812
162	France	42,384
163	United Kingdom	42,513
164	Oman	43,737
165	Belgium	44,881
166	Canada	46,239
167	Denmark	46,602
168	Taiwan	47,790
169	Austria	47,856
170	Iceland	48,070
171	Germany	48,189
172	Australia	48,806
173	Sweden	49,678
174	Bahrain	50,302
175	Netherlands	50,846
176	Saudi Arabia	54,078
177	United States	57,293
178	Hong Kong	58,094
179	Switzerland	59,375
180	San Marino	64,443
181	United Arab Emirates	67,696
182	Norway	69,296
183	Ireland	69,374
184	Kuwait	71,263
185	Brunei Darussalam	79,710
186	Singapore	87,082
187	Macao	96,147
188	Luxembourg	101,936
189	Qatar	129,726

*Data collected from International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database, October 2016

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Gross domestic product (GDP) based on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) per capita.

Rank

Country

2016 International Dollars

1

Central African Republic

656

2

Democratic Republic of the Congo

784

3

Burundi

818

4

Liberia

882

5

Niger

1,113

6

Malawi

1,139

7

Mozambique

1,228

8

Guinea

1,271

9

Eritrea

1,321

10

Madagascar

1,504

11

Comoros

1,529

12

Togo

1,545

13

Guinea-Bissau

1,568

14

Sierra Leone

1,651

15

The Gambia

1,664

16

South Sudan

1,670

17

Haiti

1,784

18

Burkina Faso

1,790

19

Kiribati

1,820

20

Rwanda

1,905

21

Ethiopia

1,916

22

Zimbabwe

1,953

23

Afghanistan

1,957

24

Solomon Islands

1,995

25

Uganda