Former French colonies Compared by Economy > GDP > Official exchange rate > Per capita
- Home
- Country Info
- Stats
- Economy
- GDP
- Official exchange rate
- Per capita
DEFINITION:
This entry gives the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. A nation's GDP at offical exchange rates (OER) is the home-currency-denominated annual GDP figure divided by the bilateral average US exchange rate with that country in that year. The measure is simple to compute and gives a precise measure of the value of output. Many economists prefer this measure when gauging the economic power an economy maintains vis-a-vis its neighbors, judging that an exchange rate captures the purchasing power a nation enjoys in the international marketplace. Official exchange rates, however, can be artifically fixed and/or subject to manipulation - resulting in claims of the country having an under- or over-valued currency - and are not necessarily the equivalent of a market-determined exchange rate. Moreover, even if the official exchange rate is market-determined, market exchange rates are frequently established by a relatively small set of goods and services (the ones the country trades) and may not capture the value of the larger set of goods the country produces. Furthermore, OER-converted GDP is not well suited to comparing domestic GDP over time, since appreciation/depreciation from one year to the next will make the OER GDP value rise/fall regardless of whether home-currency-denominated GDP changed. Per capita figures expressed per 1 population.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lebanon | $9,259.70 per capita | 2010 | ||
2 | Gabon | $8,345.51 per capita | 2010 | ||
3 | Tunisia | $4,157.70 per capita | 2010 | ||
4 | Algeria | $3,948.01 per capita | 2007 | ||
5 | Morocco | $2,175.24 per capita | 2007 | ||
6 | Syria | $1,954.98 per capita | 2007 | ||
7 | Djibouti | $1,281.21 per capita | 2010 | ||
8 | Cote d'Ivoire | $1,133.85 per capita | 2010 | ||
9 | Cameroon | $1,127.48 per capita | 2010 | ||
10 | Senegal | $1,018.18 per capita | 2010 | ||
11 | Laos | $1,017.78 per capita | 2010 | ||
12 | Mauritania | $1,007.51 per capita | 2010 | ||
13 | Vietnam | $821.23 per capita | 2007 | ||
14 | Benin | $739.75 per capita | 2010 | ||
15 | Chad | $676.23 per capita | 2010 | ||
16 | Haiti | $644.01 per capita | 2010 | ||
17 | Cambodia | $614.75 per capita | 2007 | ||
18 | Mali | $562.30 per capita | 2007 | ||
19 | Burkina Faso | $551.27 per capita | 2010 | ||
20 | Togo | $509.95 per capita | 2010 | ||
21 | Central African Republic | $480.12 per capita | 2010 | ||
22 | Mozambique | $455.46 per capita | 2010 | ||
23 | Guinea | $435.18 per capita | 2010 | ||
24 | Madagascar | $402.14 per capita | 2010 | ||
25 | Niger | $323.69 per capita | 2007 |